#punctuation

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#punctuation #grammar

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#grammar #manners #punctuation #grammar

...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#punctuation #grammar

A brick would make a great lead character in an urban drama, because with 12 edges, a brick would be the edgiest character on TV by two sides.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Punctuation, is? fun! ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#punctuation #humor

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

— S.A.R.K.

#exclamation #punctuation #change

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#periods #punctuation #writing #love

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bad #bin #death #good #good thing

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done. ↗

— John Mayer

#done #good #grammar #heart #know

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? ↗

— Lynne Truss

#english-language #grammar #humor #lynne-truss #punctuation