There is an underlying rhythm to all text. Sentences crashing fall like the waves of the sea, and work unconsciously on the reader. Punctuation is the music of language. As a conductor can influence the experience of the song by manipulating its rhyt...
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and 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.
Oftentimes, people meet our writing before they meet us; our writing is our first impression.People read our résumés, cover letters, proposals, and emails, and that's the basis on which we are judged first. If our writing is full of grammar and p...
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.
When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout, whisper, pause, wave your arms, roll your eyes, wrinkle your brow. In writing,...
My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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 apost...
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 bet...
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
You may think that you don't need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will come to your rescue. And I get it: spell check and grammar check are great. Every time I spot a red or green line in my wr...
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.
