Do Punctuation Go Inside Quotes & Sayings

They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful of punctuation marks. These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal the motives and minds of insects and of cats. They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books. — Neil Gaiman

Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made. — Richard A. Posner

I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives. — Richard Grossman

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind. — Mahatma Gandhi

My stories may seem to be the stories of men, but a check of my books will show that I have probably written the stories of more strong women than any other writer ... [examples include] Miss Nesselrode of The Lonesome Gods, Ruth Macken of Bendigo Shafter, Echo Sackett of Ride the River, Em Talon of Ride the Dark Trail are some ... [and] one of my favorites is Miss Jessica Trescott of Matagorda. (The Sackett Companion) — Louis L'Amour

The asymmetry of power that cuteness revolves around is another compelling reminder of how aesthetic categories register social conflict. There can be no experience of any person or object as cute that does not somehow call up the subject's sense of power over those who are less powerful. But, as Lori Merish underscores, the fact that the cute object seems capable of making an affective demand on the subject - a demand for care that the subject is culturally as well as biologically compelled to fulfill - is already a sign that "cute" does not just denote a static power differential, but rather a dynamic and complex power struggle. — Sianne Ngai

Kittens can happen to anyone. — Paul Gallico

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men. — Wallace D. Wattles

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made. — Maria Sharapova

Silos are the great hidden constant of the industrialised world. — John Darnielle

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there. — Suzi Quatro

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams. — Leo Tolstoy

And anyway, it never happened." I bit my lip to keep from laughing. "Nope, it didn't," he said. "Not in a house." "Not with a mouse." "Not in a box. — Melanie Harlow

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of. — Emily Mortimer

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel — Henry James