Punctuation Quotes

“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.”

“We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.”

“Punctuation, is? fun!”

“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

“In music the punctuation is absolutely strict the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.”

“Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.”

“On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.”

“If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.”

“Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.”

“In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.”