Packingtons Pound Quotes & Sayings

Here is an appropriate use of the exclamation mark:
The last thing he expected when the elevator door opened was the snarling tiger that leapt at him.
"Ahhhhh!"
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In almost all situations that do not involve immediate physical danger or great surprise, you should think twice before using an exclamation mark. If you have thought twice and the exclamation mark is still there, think about it three times, or however many times it takes until you delete it. — Howard Mittelmark

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on. — Donald Miller

I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped? — Stephen Richards

I expect the world from you, as I should, because you're amazing and talented and funny and sweet. You're sexy as hell and clever and smart and capable of so many things. So yeah. I expect a hell of a lot from you. And I also expect that you can be successful in managing your OCD. I'm proud of you, Bailey. — S. Walden

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company. — John Donne

Bands
enough with the crayon face-paint
you're better than that. — Ted Leo

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. — Jayne Anne Phillips

So many stories are determined before they start. — Lionel Shriver

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet. — Ice Cube

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor. — Steven Pinker

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those. — Jeffrey Zeldman

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm harmless. I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody. When people know you're that way, you can say stuff that the creepy guy at your office could never get away with. — Adam Carolla

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?' — Lewis Black