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Quotes About Hyphen

When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us.
~ Rex Stout
Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of 'Moby-Dick.
~ Richard Armour
Does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen?
~ Alison Bechdel
I'm going. A lot is possible. The weather's nice, Captain. Look: such a beautiful, solid, rough sky -you'd almost feel like pounding a block of wood into it and hanging yourself on it. Only because of the hyphen between yes and no? Is no to blame for yes, or yes for no? I'll have to think about that.
~ Georg Buchner
But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male . I saw myself in it - in the hyphen.
~ Sarah Waters
hyphen) is a special metacharacter because it is only a metacharacter when used between [ and ]. Outside of a set, –
~ Ben Forta
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.
~ Chino XL
As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'
~ Mona Eltahawy
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?
~ Martin Gardner
When you recover your old sofa from the skip and get it re-covered, it may take you a while to recover from the cost. (A hyphen can change the very meaning of a word.)
~ Gyles Brandreth
STUDENTS GET FIRST HAND JOB EXPERIENCE' is a newspaper headline that I have seen with my own eyes. I think you'll agree: it needed a hyphen, either between 'first' and 'hand' or between 'hand' and 'job', depending.
~ Gyles Brandreth
the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In
~ John McPhee
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?
~ Martin Gardner