Quotes About Semi Colons

#1. 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

#2. If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Pico Iyer

#3. 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

#4. The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#5. The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Lucy Grealy

#6. One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

George Saunders

#7. I hate over-privileged people in general. You just happen to fall into that category. No offense. But Nykyrian said you weren't a total bitch so I'll trust him until you make him out a liar. (Hauk)
You seriously lack social skills, don't you? (Kiara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Running a small country and managing a game is almost synonymous.

Frank Pearce

#9. My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Be patient. Don't force your experiences on others. The moving of spirit is a great mystery, and how or why or when certain people wake up is beyond us. Let people have their own experiences.

Rob Bell

#11. Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

E.B. White

#12. PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. You must be a servant if you want to be great in life

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Neil Gaiman

#15. Simply calling the Great Fire an accident did not satisfy some people, most notably the local newspapers. They demanded a culprit--

Jim Murphy