Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
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Punctuation
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell."
Steve Martin
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period."
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"Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary."
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