Quotes About Ellipsis

#1. An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Jami Attenberg

#2. [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

Elizabeth I

#3. In nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

Elizabeth Bowen

#4. I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

Sarah Dessen

#5. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

Bergen Evans

#6. I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end.

Lynne Truss

#7. What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past
the whole life of a civilization
but also a major share ofthe Jewish future ... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

Cynthia Ozick

#8. Space was full of questions, life was a sentence always ending in an ellipsis or a question mark. You couldn't answer everything. You could only believe there were answers at all.

Lavie Tidhar

#9. She "loved me" in quotations She kissed me in bold I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps She left with an ellipsis . . .

Colleen Hoover

#10. In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Milan Kundera

#11. My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.

Tomaz Salamun

#12. It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy.

C.S. Lewis

#13. That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

Arianna Huffington

#14. These days, they all had their hands thrust into the sky, hoping for comets.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. Why don't you call me Michael," Mr. Dobrescu said. "You will damage your throat if you keep mangling our name.

Elizabeth Camden

#16. Fear is the negative emotion that brings every traceable hardship into our life. Only Love can free us from fear.

Donald L. Hicks

#17. On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.

Amy Carlson

#18. Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Henry Miller

#19. It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president ... except me.

Barry Goldwater

#20. I'm safer than I've been in days, surrounded by the people I love most, and yet I've never wanted to cry more. For them, I hold back. I curl inward and bleed alone, inside, where no one else can see.

Victoria Aveyard