"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." — Terry Pratchett
I write music with an exclamation point! — Richard Wagner
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation — Isaac Newton
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know. — Mistinguett
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. — Abbas Kiarostami
Never put a question mark where God puts a Period — Richard Petty
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit. — Michael Kors
Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark. — Amos Oz
No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time. — Isaac Babel
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. — Isaac Babel
The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. — Lynne Truss
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. — Kurt Vonnegut
No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates. — Osho
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell
Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson. — Iyanla Vanzant
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. — Unknown
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma. — Neal A. Maxwell
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. — Elmore Leonard
...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points. — Ray Bradbury
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. — Mark Twain
Live your life as an exclamation, not as an explanation.
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak. — Jodi Picoult
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations. — J. D. Salinger
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another. — Tom Wolfe
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. — Criss Jami
Exclamation Quotes
You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. — Saint John Chrysostom
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs. — Marie-Louise von Franz
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses. — Isaac Marion
3 lessons to be learn from a Pencil.Pain always sharpens you!Everything you do leaves a mark!What's inside you is useful, not what's outside!
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
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation. — Robert R. McCammon
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life is partly in the strange and unexpected. It is in the constant exclamation 'Who would have thought it?' — Hugh Jackman
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight. — Ronald Rolheiser
People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Punctuation Marks Quotes
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. — Julie Burchill
Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat. — Tahereh Mafi
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss
Today let your identity be a giant question mark...
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
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking. — Bergen Evans
Press forward. Do not stop. Do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman. — Dana Gould
If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim. — John Humphrys
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. — Jean Giraudoux
Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers — Kurt Vonnegut
So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience. — Miles Kington
The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations. — David Levithan
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. — Terry Pratchett
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language? — John Mortimer
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. — Terry Pratchett
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. — Joey Santiago
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! — Gary Ryan Blair
To be called a child of God - there is no greater distinction. I love the final sentence of that Scripture with that emphatic exclamation mark. What a powerful assurance. Right here, right now, in this very moment, no matter how good or bad you feel about yourself, you're a beloved child of God. Throughout Scripture, God is conveying this message. He made you, he loves you, he pursues you, he's not done with you, and he's called you his child. — Matthew West
I remember reading a book called, "From Niggas To Gods, Part One" by Andre Akil; the book was so easy to read, it was in capital letters with exclamation marks because Akil was screaming at us. It was about getting out of the mindset that this system has put you in. This mindset that makes you feel like your circumstances are permanent and wherever you're born is where you're going to end up. You have to realize who you are. — Charlamagne Tha God
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers. — Emile M. Cioran
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. — Osho
The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant. — Anna Akhmatova
Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all. — Derek Landy
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks. — Gail Carriger
I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin. — Neil Gaiman
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