Top 15 Quotes About Colons
#1. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.
Ann Zwinger
#2. If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.
Lynne Truss
#3. If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
Pico Iyer
#4. I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
E.L. Doctorow
#5. I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
John Clare
#6. I thought about TimeBlaze. We should ... shorten the titles. The titles are getting long. More colons than a proctologist.
D.C. Pierson
#7. My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E.B. White
#9. Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Neil Gaiman
#10. She groaned and closed those eyes. "Do not look at me like that. You will make me smile, and I refuse to smile when I am attempting to stay mad at you.
Jenni James
#11. I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you're along for the ride.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#12. The loneliness within him was like slow decay, and with time it would rot its way into his soul.
R.J. Lewis
#13. If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place.
Paulo Coelho
#14. So now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green ...
John Geddes
#15. If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.
Adam Grant
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