Comma Vs Colon Quotes & Sayings

I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation. — Clarice Lispector

Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist. — Carlos Wallace

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. — William Strunk Jr.

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors. — Alexander Kluge

Then, as the storm burst round him, he
rose slowly to his feet and turned his closed eyes toward the Sea.
And the world whistled in his ears. — W.E.B. Du Bois

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot. — Alice Oswald

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma,
Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen.
Question mark, you pregnant?
Oh you're not? I love you, period. — Chino XL

I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs. — Nina Garcia

Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing. — Louis Leterrier

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come ... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times. — Billy Graham

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system. — Carl Safina

I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't. — Anne Ellis

If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a "rolling stop"; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road. — Roy Peter Clark

The stops point out, with truth, the time of pause
A sentence doth require at ev'ry clause.
t ev'ry comma, stop while one you count;
At semicolon, two is the amount;
A colon doth require the time of three;
The period four, as learned men agree. — Cecil B. Hartley

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer. — Jon M. Chu