Quotes of: Commas Keyword

Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.

Jaida Jones

I'm exhausted. I spent all morning putting in a comma and all afternoon taking it out

Oscar Wilde

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E. B. White

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

Devdutt Pattanaik

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

The Book of Heaven: A Novel

The universe does not work in phrases; don’t focus on the commas; just wait for the full stop.

By My Own Hands

(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

Nick Bantock

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

Pico Iyer

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

John Clare

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Buffy Andrews

Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on s...

Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it'll be so long, I'll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it.

I Want

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.

My Sister's Keeper

Many people live in an induced spiritual comma; they are inherently vicious, and are completely unaware of their malady.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

Ronald Harwood

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. Th...

Matthew McConaughey

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

Francine Prose

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

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Winston Graham

Whatever it is that you know, or that you don’t know, tell me about it. We can exchange tirades. The comma is my favorite piece of punctuation and I’ve got all night.

Human Detritus