A Quote by Henry Miller

Keep your exclamation points under control!

Henry Miller

Quote Topics

Control Exclamation Exclamation Points Keep Points Your Your Ex

Quote Author

Henry Miller
American - Novelist
December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

Elmore Leonard

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Mark Twain

20 or 30 exclamation points can go a long way to making the tone of your email excited and cheerful.

Sarah Cooper

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Tom Wolfe

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

Sark

You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

John Wooden

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Amalur's user interface is designed much like a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, liberally sprinkling yellow exclamation points and markers all over your mini-map in order to show you where to quest next.

Jason Schreier

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

J. D. Salinger

If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your ignorance is in control. Intelligence or ignorance? Your ability to keep an open mind and appreciate multiple points of view is conscious choice. And one that can open your world, and shape your childs future.

Robert Kiyosaki

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

Ray Bradbury

Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

Lewis Thomas

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.

David Lynch

I think President Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously, not everybody thinks that.

Cass Sunstein

I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously not everybody thinks that.

Cass Sunstein

A Quote by Henry Miller

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors