Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
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.
20 or 30 exclamation points can go a long way to making the tone of your email excited and cheerful.
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
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.
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.
Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.
People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.
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.
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.
Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.
Please come to Destination I'm not doin well Exclamation
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.
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
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.
Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life is partly in the strange and unexpected. It is in the constant exclamation 'Who would have thought it?'
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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.
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.
It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
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?
I joined an improv comedy group. Ours was named 'Quick Fire!' with an exclamation point. It was when I auditioned for that team and got on it and felt like... I'll just say I felt like I was good at it.
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
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!
I write music with an exclamation point!
Keep your exclamation points under control!
I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.
Dropping the exclamation point was our way of drawing a line in the sand. We have a new record and we feel like a new band. We were all tired of it, and we went ahead and got rid of it.
Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.
People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word 'awesome' too much, but that's just me.
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!
I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
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