Quotes About Semicolon

The semicolon is a much neglected beast

We argued for weeks about the existence and then the location of a particular semicolon

I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.

semicolons are dangerously habit-forming. Many writers hooked on semicolons become an embarrassment to their families and friends.

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world.

The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is "ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog's belly".

it was Manutius who invented italics, introduced the semicolon and gave the comma its distinctive hooked shape. As

And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period.

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a single semicolon, would cause dark alcoholic brooding, which would finally erupt in long, hectoring, semicoherent phone calls.

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.

Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life.

did anyone ever use a semi-colon in a suicide note?).

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?

Human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism...inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)....And through it all there has always been some truly awful food.