Top 65 Quotes About Commas
#1. I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon
#2. A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
Ze Frank
#3. Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
Matthew McConaughey
#4. I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks.
Sarah Kay
#5. She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.
Jonathan Franzen
#6. I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
Karl Kraus
#7. I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there ... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.
Julius Nyerere
#8. A text message has no soul, no matter how many commas you shift.
Vikki Wakefield
#9. Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
Carolyn Kizer
#10. Donald crouched down, purple commas punctuating his vision, his windpipe feeling as if someone had shoved a flue-brush down it.
Lissa Evans
#11. Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking.
Ada Maria Soto
#12. Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.
Elmore Leonard
#13. If a sentence were a picket fence, the serial commas would be posts at regular intervals.
Anonymous
#14. I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
Pamela Frankau
#15. The universe does not work in phrases; don't focus on the commas; just wait for the full stop.
Jude Idada
#16. Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.
Henry Watson Fowler
#17. Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.
Claudia Gray
#18. I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.
Charles McCarry
#19. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas
a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.
Jodi Picoult
#20. We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
Clifton Fadiman
#21. To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
Margaret Fuller
#22. Theres nothing to fear but
fears themselves, such as monsters,
rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
monsters, and oxford commas.
Craig Benzine
#23. To those of us accustomed to newspaper headlines, 'PIZZAS' in inverted commas suggests these might be pizzas, but nobody's promising anything, and if they turn out to be cardboard with a bit of cheese on top, you can't say you weren't warned.
Lynne Truss
#24. To my editors, I graciously thank you. I now know "is" and "was" aren't the same thing. It's the periods and commas that got me. Can't see the darn things.
S.N. Deinscheiss
#25. All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
Mitchell Thomas
#26. The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
Bill Walsh
#27. I have been fighting over commas all my life.
Mark Helprin
#28. Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure
put a period to
those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing ... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
Iyanla Vanzant
#29. Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.
Jaida Jones
#30. Really, I want you to finish this book feeling like we could become friends, if the timing was right. That's it. Oh, and by the way, you should drink while you're reading this book. If you want to play a drinking game, I suggest you take a shot when you feel like I am abusing commas.
Alida Nugent
#32. I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?
Matthew McConaughey
#33. I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone ... I was throwing radios off buildings and ... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.
William Wegman
#34. 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
#35. The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
E. M. Forster
#36. The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.
Lynne Truss
#37. Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
Carolyn Kizer
#38. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
Mary Norris
#39. Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E.B. White
#40. You mean that's your idea of desire, with all those commas?
Michael Palmer
#41. It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.
Martin McDonagh
#43. CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.
Eric S. Raymond
#44. 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
#45. Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.
Matt Haig
#46. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#49. A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.
Adam Roberts
#50. Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f.
Daniel Kahneman
#51. There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.
Alice Hoffman
#52. The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark ... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.
Jodi Picoult
#53. I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.
Stephen Bayley
#54. In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.
Fran Lebowitz
#55. Ruth smiles, which rearranges the lines on her face. She inverts her parentheses and transforms commas into apostrophes. The pattern is that of a woman who has no regrets.
Julie Buxbaum
#56. And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
John Clare
#58. Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills.
Chandan Sharma
#59. 1) I'm, a, comma, whore. Apparently, I throw them around like confetti. Or glitter. The title of my next book: WHY COMMAS RULE THE WORLD, AND STUFF.
Kimberly Derting
#61. Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#62. So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#63. Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.
Mary Norris
#64. All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.
Eddie Adams
#65. He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.
Raymond Chandler
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