Quotation Marks Quotes

Quotation Marks Quote of the day

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.