Is The Comma After Quotes & Sayings

I love hanging out at home with my kid. It's hard to get me to leave the house. — Angela Kinsey

Little sleep, no investment portfolio, no family around, no hot water. On an evening a few days after arriving in Cange, I wondered aloud what compensation he got for these various hardships. He told me, "If you're making sacrifices, unless you're automatically following some rule, it stands to reason that you're trying to lessen some psychic discomfort. So, for example, if I took steps to be a doctor for those who don't have medical care, it could be regarded as a sacrifice, but it could also be regarded as a way to deal with ambivalence." He went on, and his voice changed a little. He didn't bristle, but his tone had an edge: "I feel ambivalent about selling my services in a world where some can't buy them. You can feel ambivalent about that, because you should feel ambivalent. Comma." This was for me one of the first of many encounters with Farmer's — Tracy Kidder

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf. — Jack Nicklaus

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive. — Christopher Hitchens

His name is Henry DuPont. He is two years older than you, very handsome, and wealthy. You'll make a good match. She said simply, as if she were choosing goose over chicken for supper. — Katlyn Charlesworth

As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in opening up a pair of commas and then neglecting to deliver the closing one. The reader hears the first shoe drop and then strains in agony to hear the second. In dramatic terms, it's like putting a gun on the mantelpiece in Act I and then having the heroine drown herself quietly offstage in the bath during the interval. It's just not cricket. Take the example, 'The Highland Terrier is the cutest, and perhaps the best of all dog species.' Sensitive people trained to listen for the second comma (after 'best') find themselves quite stranded by that kind of thing. They feel cheated and giddy. In very bad cases, they fall over. — Lynne Truss

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop. — Victor Klemperer

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. — Djuna Barnes

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. — Lynne Truss

[ANGELICA]
I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase
It changed the meaning. Did you intend this?
One stroke and you've consumed my waking days
It says:

[HAMILTON/ANGELICA:]
"My dearest Angelica"

[ANGELICA:]
With a comma after "dearest"
You've written

[HAMILTON AND ANGELICA:]
"My dearest, Angelica. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used. — Archibald Marwizi

(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!) — Nick Bantock

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. — Antony Garrett Lisi