"Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop."

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Source : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

Lynne Truss

#Detours Quotes #Language Quotes #Punctuation Quotes

“See?" she says. "tricked you. You're always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms and legs, you have to focus on my chest." I raise my eyebrow at that. "say no more.”
“Old age is second childhood.”

Source : Nubes ( The Clouds), l.1417.
“Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013
“I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.”

Source : "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.
“The best computer is a man, and itâ€™s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
“I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.”
“Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is the rest is semi-history.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.”

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