Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

Lynne Truss

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Carlos Castaneda

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

Carlos Castaneda

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

Carl Andre

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Agnes de Mille

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Agnes Martin

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Agnes Martin

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.

Charles Dickens

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Jean Giraudoux

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Ron Perlman

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

Simon Cowell

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.