Quotes About Ellipses

#1. I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

Bill Walsh

#2. I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

Edmund White

#3. Thank you, Professor Weston... - How about those ellipses? Did they fit there)
- Gillian

Whitney G.

#4. The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Dorothy Thompson

#5. Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#6. If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms ...

Jonathan Swift

#7. And we must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

Giacomo Balla

#8. The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

Michel De Certeau

#9. Underneath the moonlight,
we laid and laughed
like run-on sentences, kissed like ellipses, and
you held me so close that I wear my bones down smooth
against
the grain of your skin.

Shinji Moon

#10. Spare me the goddamn ellipses." He hissed.

Whitney G.

#11. I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Isaac Marion

#12. We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

Fernando Pessoa

#13. Are your ellipses (...) implying something significant or do you just enjoy abusing grammar for no reason?

Whitney G.

#14. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

Johannes Kepler

#16. No doubt but there is none other beeste comparable to the mightie dragon in awesome power and majestie, and few so worthie of the diligent studies of wise men. -Gildas Magnus, Ars Draconis, 1465

Dugald Steer

#17. There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.

Phoebe Rose

#18. One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me ... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

Duane G. Carey

#19. Sally - Those fucking dickless - okay, maybe not that - lily-livered, spineless, impotent - okay, not that either - chickenhearted, dim-witted, gutless Doms.

Cherise Sinclair

#20. May you find the courage to dare great things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#22. It's impossible to be more of a footballer than Messi.

Frank Rijkaard

#23. More probably, foolish preachers, by always telling you how much Christianity will help you and how good it is for society, have actually led you to forget that Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity

C.S. Lewis

#24. Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

Marianne Williamson

#25. I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

Ralph Ellison