Top 999 Punctuation Marks Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but punctuation, for which it has developed its own system of Tolkienic elaboration.

Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you'll truly be like a Brit!

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Partnering up with the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour marks a milestone moment in my career.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

I love 'HUMBLE' because he spoke on women with stretch marks and that's what I live and stand for is body positivity.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

I wouldn't dream of giving any human being marks out of 10 on two hours' acquaintance.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Albums are just a punctuation of music. I don't usually start out with a manifesto. Your tastes change with the process of the album. I just make music and put it out when there's enough to call it an album.

It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Hopefully, I've got rid of the question marks over whether I can play at the top level.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Phrasing is the idea of finding sentences and using punctuation in speech. I often look at the score to see what's written in by the composer to see if I can find clues to those directions, like what direction did the composer have in mind, and I try to incorporate those things as much as possible.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

I fill my business emails with smiley faces and question marks so that I don't sound too severe.

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

With this 'social media,' instead of letters you get emails. They're all written in a hurry, with no punctuation, no paragraphs - it's one continual stream, with spelling mistakes. Quite frankly I think it's a world I don't need. But I have to read them all because people say, 'Did you get my letter?' And it's not even a letter!

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.

Mini-skirts, Prada and Agnes B are for New York and L.A. Washington is more America's equivalent of Marks & Spencer.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.

Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.