Punctuation Quotes

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

Punctuation, is? fun!

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

I will say that the thing that I use too much, and I need to stop, but the F-word is pretty great. When you say it, it's so viscerally strong. It also serves as a great punctuation point - it can really emphasize how dumb something is.

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.