Quotes About Hyphens

#1. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.

Tim Dorsey

#2. I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens ... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

Woodrow Wilson

#4. There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Mary Norris

#5. What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?

John Grisham

#6. Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

Pamela Frankau

#7. From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.

Isabel Wilkerson

#8. Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

Eric Partridge

#9. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

Mary Norris

#10. The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.

Tim McCarver

#11. Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

Josh Billings

#12. I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.

Ted Sarandos

#13. They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

E.L. Konigsburg

#14. A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

Walter Bagehot

#15. A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#16. The absence of someone comes like a new season, first only in pieces: you see the absence in them long before they leave.

Gerard Donovan

#17. There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

Laurence J. Peter

#18. Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

Vijender Singh

#19. One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Winston Churchill

#20. Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.

John Le Carre

#21. If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

Eric Stoltz