Quotes on Exclamation

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.