Punctuation Quotes - Page 2

• Seguro que cuando todos los signos de puntuación hacen una fiesta, miran en silencio a la mujer del signo de exclamación y piensan, esa pobre mujer.

  Dana Gould

  Fiesta, Pensamiento, Signos De Exclamación

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• > CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I’m not yelling!!! > CracKing: You’re using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that’s like yelling.

  Meg Cabot

  Yelling, Needs, Lines

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• Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.

  Lindley Murray

  Art, Writing, Different

  Lindley Murray (1841). “English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners with an Appendix by Lindley Murray”, p.176

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• Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Cities, Voice

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go. (If you get it wrong, any least thing, the editor will throw your manuscript out.) Punctuation is not like musical notation; it doesn't indicate the length of pauses, but instead signifies logical relations. There are all sorts of people out there who know these things very well. You have to be among them even to begin.

  Annie Dillard

  Editors, People, Musical

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• 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 Bergen

  Thinking, Long, Groups

  "The 'Manhunt' To Capture Osama Bin Laden". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• Desde el punto de vista del jardinero, noviembre puede ser el peor mes al que enfrentarse: La naturaleza está dando cuerda a las cosas, el aire es frío, los cielos son grises, pero normalmente la marca final de puntuación al año aún no ha llegado: la nieve; nieve que lo cubre todo en el jardín y marca la mentalidad del final de la actividad de un año. Hay poco que hacer fuera, excepto esperar a que lleguen días más largos en el nuevo año y las alegrías de las próximas vacaciones.

  H. Peter Loewer

  New Year, Holiday, Garden

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• Dale a un funcionario un buen caso y lo destrozará con tópicos, mala puntuación, dobles negaciones y disculpas enrevesadas.

  Alan Clark

  Trabajo, Disculpa, Dar

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• [Mary Wortley Montagu] escribió más cartas, con menos signos de puntuación, que cualquier otra inglesa de su época; y su sobrino, el cuarto barón Rokeby, casi se quedó ciego al descifrar los dos volúmenes de correspondencia sin fecha que se imprimieron en 1810. Siguieron dos más en 1813, después de lo cual el galante barón murió en su puesto o fue golpeado por la desesperación, ya que sesenta y ocho cajas de cartas permanecieron intactas... "Les morts n'écrivent point", dijo Madame de Maintenon con esperanza; pero ¿de qué sirve esta inactividad, cuando todavía seguimos recibiendo sus cartas?

  Agnes Repplier

  Dos, Signos de puntuación, Ocho

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• We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

  Don Tapscott

  Running, Age, Logical

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• 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.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Pensar, Gente, Cada Día

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• Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

  George D. Prentice

  Writing, Editing, Made

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• Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

  Nicola Morgan

  Writing, Tools, Fabulous

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• My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Golf, Games

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Tenemos una de esas conversaciones en las que todo encaja, encaja, se corresponde, se bloquea, en las que incluso nuestras pausas, incluso nuestros signos de puntuación, parecen estar asintiendo con la cabeza.

  Nick Hornby

  Concordancia, signos de puntuación, cerraduras

  Nick Hornby (1996). "Alta Fidelidad", p.128, Penguin

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• 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.

  Lynne Truss

  Brother, Hands, Exclamation Marks

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• We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

  Russell Brand

  Weed, Silly, Wine

  Russell Brand (2009). “My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Soy muy consciente de que los dramaturgos, sobre todo los buenos, tienen una intención para todo lo que escriben. El lenguaje y la puntuación se utilizan de forma específica, y la mayoría de las veces los actores pueden encontrar pistas maravillosas sobre el personaje en el ritmo y la cadencia del lenguaje utilizado.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Writing, Cadence

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• El fútbol combina las dos peores cosas de Estados Unidos: es violencia salpicada de reuniones de comités.

  George Will

  Fútbol, Inspiración, NFL

  International Herald Tribune, 7 de mayo de 1990.

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• Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

  Lynne Truss

  Hombres, Dar, Respuestas

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• A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Eye, Eight

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.133, Seven Stories Press

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• In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

  Werner Herzog

  Half, Dinosaurs, Faces

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• And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Editors, Police, Scare

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• Los escritores no tienen una verdadera especialidad. Son meros generalistas con un sentido de la puntuación muy inflamado.

  Lorrie Moore

  Real, Writing, Generalists

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• La regla es la siguiente: la palabra "it's" (con apóstrofo) significa "it is" o "it has". Si la palabra no significa "it is" o "it has", lo que se necesita es "its". Esto es muy fácil de entender. Confundir las its es el mayor solecismo en el mundo de la puntuación. No importa que tengas un doctorado y hayas leído todo Henry James dos veces. Si sigues insistiendo en escribir "La buena comida en su mejor momento", mereces que te parta un rayo, te descuarticen en el acto y te entierren en una tumba sin nombre.

  Lynne Truss

  Escritura, Rayo, Doe

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