Exclamation Quotes

• One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Exclamation Points, Laughing

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Cutting, Epic

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• I write music with an exclamation point!

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Writing, Exclamation Points

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Humorous, Exclamation Points, Exclamation Marks

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

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• I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Giving Up, Moving, Love Life

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.60, Conari Press

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• A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

  Mistinguett

  Love, Dream, Women

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

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Exclamation Points, Two

  "Elmore Leonard's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2010.

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Exclamation Marks, Discworld, Underpants

  "Maskerade". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1995.

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• Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

  Criss Jami

  Exclamation Points, Doubt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Expectations, Moral

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.154

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Exclamation Marks, Mind, Discworld

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

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• Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Live Your Life, Explanation

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• In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Dance, Prayer, Past

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.220, Delacorte Press

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• To be called a child of God - there is no greater distinction. I love the final sentence of that Scripture with that emphatic exclamation mark. What a powerful assurance. Right here, right now, in this very moment, no matter how good or bad you feel about yourself, you're a beloved child of God. Throughout Scripture, God is conveying this message. He made you, he loves you, he pursues you, he's not done with you, and he's called you his child.

  Matthew West

  Children, Powerful, Love You

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.

  Erik Wolpaw

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

  Barbara Mertz

  Believe, People, Astonishment

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• The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Men, Exclamation Marks

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• 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.

  Questlove

  People, Baptism, Records

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• You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it
  since before I was born.
  My body is a nightmare
  it hurts me every day.
  I’ve been taught to resent it by boys
  trying to forge themselves righteous through conquering.
  They knew there was something wrong with me,
  it was explained through hands
  that spoke only in exclamation points.

  Brian Ellis

  Hurt, Sleep, Boys

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• If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Would Be, World

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

  Gail Carriger

  Exclamation Marks, Purpose, Moved

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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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• In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Exclamation Points, Grammar

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