Quotes About Exclamation Marks

#1. Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

John Mortimer

#2. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Parvaneh gives him a look studded with a long line of question marks and exclamation marks,

Fredrik Backman

#4. What was the apostrophe doing there? Did the doctor own the Meescham? And what was it with exclamation marks? Did people not know what they were for? Surprise, anger, joy - that's what exclamation marks were for. They had nothing to do with who resided where.

Kate DiCamillo

#5. She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

Gail Carriger

#6. An excessive use of exclamation marks is a certain indication of an unpractised writer or of one who wants to add a spurious dash of sensation to something unsensational.

Henry Watson Fowler

#7. And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

Terry Pratchett

#9. I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

Neil Gaiman

#10. What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.

Terry Pratchett

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

Isaac Marion

#12. Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Derek Landy

#13. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Albert Einstein

#14. Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Emile M. Cioran

#16. I mention the library only as a last resort. I recommend buying your own books... They can be spiced with underlines, question marks, and exclamation points; they can be thumbed and dog-eared, plucked to their essential core, and annotated so that they become a mirror of yourself.

Kato Lomb

#17. I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.

Christy Hall

#18. I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.

Dana Gould

#19. The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

Rajneesh

#20. A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#21. Anger is a golden opportunity to practise patience.

Gyonpo Tshering

#22. Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.

Emily Kinney

#23. If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much
less driving.

Lawrence Lessig

#24. One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

Andrew Fletcher

#25. It's about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks

Natasha Tsakos