Quotation Marks quotes
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"
"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."
"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside."
"There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it."
"Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you."
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