(8 quotes found)
“This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.”
Oscar Wilde
“I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!”
Henry Miller
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.”
Matthew McConaughey
“We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.”
Clifton Fadiman
“And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.”
Frank Bruno
“Cast iron rules will not answer what is one man's colon is another man's comma”
Mark Twain
“The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, every syllable is your work.”
Paul Auster
“All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.”
Thomas Mitchell