Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

Lynne Truss

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Cecil Rhodes

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Cecelia Ahern

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

Carrie Fisher

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Carl Rogers

Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?

Bette Davis

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

Bette Davis

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

Antoine Rivarol

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Charles Dickens

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Jean Giraudoux

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Ron Perlman

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

Simon Cowell

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.