Mary Norris Quotes

• Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

  Mary Norris

  Cereal, Soup, Alphabet

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

  Mary Norris

  Waiting, World, Language

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Una de las cosas que me gusta de mi trabajo es que recurre a la persona en su totalidad: no sólo a tus conocimientos de gramática y puntuación y uso y lenguas extranjeras y literatura, sino también a tu experiencia en viajes, jardinería, transporte, canto, fontanería, catolicismo, medio oeste, mozzarella, el tren A, Nueva Jersey. Y a su vez te nutre de más experiencia.

  Mary Norris

  Jobs, Singing, Gardening

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.

  Mary Norris

  Ciberespacio

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

  Mary Norris

  Clubs, Conservative, Punctuation

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

  Mary Norris

  Wonderful, Dictionary, Wonderful Things

  "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen". Book by Mary Norris, April 6, 2015.

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• Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

  Mary Norris

  Mistake, Language, Pleasure

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

  Mary Norris

  Pairs, Nun

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Todo el mundo es escritor. Todo el mundo usa el correo electrónico y tiene páginas en Facebook y tweets.

  Mary Norris

  Mail, Use, Pages

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."

  Mary Norris

  Grandma, Problem, Sometimes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

  Mary Norris

  Editors, Phases, Obsessed

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

  Mary Norris

  Mind, Dots, Pages

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Muchos supervivientes se niegan a hablar de lo que han pasado, pero yo nunca me he avergonzado de haber estado en uno de esos lugares. La vergüenza no es mía; la iglesia debería avergonzarse. Ahora dicen que lo sienten; lo que quieren decir es que lamentan haber sido descubiertos.

  Mary Norris

  Sorry, Mean, Church

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• Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.

  Mary Norris

  Taken, Light, Race

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