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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. — © Todd Gitlin
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.
My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing. — © Natasha Bedingfield
My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.
The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.
Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
Marks & Spencer's in Cardiff is a really good place to get recognised.
I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James Baldwin and Joan Didion, to the stories and novels of Ralph Ellison, Roberto Bolano and Celine. Distinctive voices like these were a source of constant nourishment on all range of matters, from punctuation to philosophy.
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. — © Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.
After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.
The easy way to make your texts sexier? Lose the question marks.
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going to edit your work. It's so wide open. People just grunt and that's a song. You can kind of do anything.
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.
We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division and complex multiplication and to be able to read a novel. They should be able to write a short story with accurate punctuation, spelling and grammar.
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. — © Damien Hirst
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.
Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.
Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.
I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early throes of an idea there is for me only grammar of the mind, which is a flow of thought, as natural and precise as the flow of a river to the sea.
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.
Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.
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