Exclamation Marks Quotes

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Humorous, Exclamation Points, Mind

  "The Wit And Wisdom Of Terry Pratchett", www.esquire.com. December 3, 2015.

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• 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.

  Lynne Truss

  Brother, Hands, Piano

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• En lo que respecta a la buena escritura, el uso del signo de exclamación es un signo de fracaso. Es el equivalente literario de un hombre que sostiene una tarjeta en la que se lee RÍE ante el público de un estudio.

  Miles Kington

  Risa, Lectura, Escritura

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Discworld, Multiple

  "Eric" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 153), February 2002.

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• Y todos esos signos de exclamación, ¿te das cuenta? ¿Cinco? Un signo seguro de alguien que lleva los calzoncillos en la cabeza.

  Terry Pratchett

  Discworld, Underpants, Five

  "Maskerade". Libro de Terry Pratchett, 1995.

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• El sabio vive con un signo de interrogación y el hombre de asombro vive con un signo de exclamación.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Men, Knowledgeable Person

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• Todas las grandes ideas deberían ir seguidas de un signo de exclamación, una señal de advertencia similar a la calavera y las tibias cruzadas dibujadas en los transformadores de alta tensión.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Skulls, Warning

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• ¿Queremos espacios en blanco, asteriscos y signos de exclamación que la gente pueda rellenar con su propia imaginación, o estamos preparados y somos lo bastante fuertes para tolerar, aunque no lo aprobemos, el lenguaje anglosajón, realista y vivo?

  John Mortimer

  Strong, Imagination, People

  Declaraciones de John Mortimer en defensa del propietario de la tienda de discos Christopher Seale contra los cargos de obscenidad por mostrar anuncios del LP de Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks" en el Tribunal de Magistrados de Nottingham, 14 de noviembre de 1977.

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• Siempre es bueno terminar las frases con un signo de exclamación, y no con una coma.

  Joey Santiago

  Nice, Ends, Sentences

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• The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.

  Anna Ajmátova

  Stars, Butterfly, Eye

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• Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

  Derek Landy

  Writing, World, Glad

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• I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward my wife. "Dead." My eyes drift toward the sky and lose their focus. "Want it...to hurt. But...doesn't." Julie looks at me like she's waiting for more, and I wonder if I've expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

  Isaac Marion

  Hurt, Distance, Eye

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Se movía con tal determinación que era como si caminara con signos de exclamación.

  Gail Carriger

  Purpose, Moved, Mark

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• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Numbers, Ink

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• I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

  Isaac Marion

  Punctuation Marks, Long, Want

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Un signo de exclamación cansado es un signo de interrogación.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Tired, Question Mark, Mark

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