Hyphens Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Hyphens". There are currently 22 quotes in our collection about Hyphens. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Hyphens!
The best sayings about Hyphens that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

    Heart   Patriotic   Men  
    Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

    Views   Names   Mind  
    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

  • It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

    Wonder   Enough   Hyphens  
    Frank McCourt (1999). “Tis: A Memoir”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
  • One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

  • There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

    Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company
  • 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.

    Karma   Rap   Love You  
    Song: Wordsmith
  • Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

    Life   Matter   Spirit  
    Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
  • I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these characters are all parentless - every character in this book is feral in some way - without any guidance in their upbringing. They find no choice but to seek refuge in extreme behaviors.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

    Names   Needs   Hyphens  
    Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • 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 (2006). “Aha! A Two Volume Collection: Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight”, MAA
  • There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

    Men   Fifty   Hyphens  
  • A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

    'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'
  • Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

  • This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

  • The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.

  • Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

    Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.125, Routledge
  • I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

  • Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

    Tea   Drink   Hyphens  
    Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.161, NYU Press
  • Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

  • All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep.

    Flower   Sleep   Eye  
  • American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

    Toni Morrison (2007). “Playing in the Dark”, p.38, Vintage
Page 1 of 1
We hope our collection of Hyphens quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Hyphens is constantly growing (today it includes 22 sayings from famous people about Hyphens), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Hyphens!