Punctuation With Scare Quotes & Sayings

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families. — Columba Bush

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

Enduring to the end requires total commitment to the Savior and to our covenants. — Kevin W. Pearson

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. — Erica Jong

The disciples are physicians of no value to a soul crying, and not heard of Christ. Oh! Moses is a meek man, David a sweet singer, Job and his experience profitable, the apostles God's instruments, the Virgin Mary is full of grace, the glorified desire the church to be delivered; but they are all nothing to Jesus Christ. There is more in a piece of a corner of Christ's heart (to speak so) than in millions of worlds of angels and created comforts, when the conscience hath gotten a back-throw with the hand of the Almighty. — Samuel Rutherford

I believe in it because it is impossible. — Paul Torday

Although thoroughly discredited and defanged, the Bund, in the public mind, — Lynne Olson

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy. — Margaret Atwood

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status. — Mason Cooley

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. — Nicolaus Copernicus

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere! — Dorothea Benton Frank