Grammar Girl Commas Quotes & Sayings

Someone coughed nearby, from some huddle of stones, and then spoke. 'So, who are we fighting for again?'
Fiddler could not place the voice.
Nor the one that replied, 'Everyone.'
A long pause, and then, 'No wonder we're losing. — Steven Erikson

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about. — Bertrand Russell

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell. — Jonathan Edwards

Baseball is not a grind for me. — Steve Finley

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself. — Ralph Ellison

The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did. — Gore Vidal

The human louse somewhat resembles a tiny lobster, and he lives chiefly in your trousers. Short of burning all your clothes there is no known way of getting rid of him. Down the seams of your trousers he lays his glittering white eggs, like tiny grains of rice, which hatch out and breed families of thier own at horrible speed. I think pacifists might find it helpful to illustrate thier pamphlets with enlarged photographs of lice. Glory of war indeed! In war all solderies are lousy, at the least when it is warm enough. The men that fought at Verdun, at Waterloo, at Flodden, at Senlac, at Thermopylae - every one of them had lice crawling over his testicles. — George Orwell

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present — Russell Kirk

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 2 SAMUEL 22:31 — Stormie O'martian

Dreams are our spiritual illustrated discovery journals. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you — T.I. Harris

What you see is what suffices you — Sunday Adelaja