Comma Or Colon Before Block Quotes

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The man credited with inventing the comma, colon, and full stop punctuation marks was a librarian of Alexandria called Aristophanes. ~ Aristophanes

Happy Christmas, Clara. Xx.
Yes, I know. I know that text doesn't look like much. But ... actually. First note the comma. I feel proud of his comma, and of being his comma's recipient. ~ India Knight

I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation. ~ Clarice Lispector

There is always a comma to check whether are we going to do the same mistake which we have done before? But proble is that we never use this comma. ~ Vaibhav Soni

I never thought of doing anything but comics, except maybe being a pilot. ~ Ernie Colon

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma ... ~ R.D. Ronald

So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to come. Like a well-trained magician's assistant, it pauses slightly to give you time to get a bit worried, and then efficiently whisks away the cloth and reveals the trick complete. ~ Lynne Truss

People are not meant to be alone, as the word itself is made of two syllables. ~ Kimberlee Colon

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen. ~ Miriam Colon

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

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon. ~ Mike McCready

You deserve what you tollerate. ~ Ramon Colon-Lopez

Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because, it makes writing, better, she said, somebody, could lose, a lot, of money, if a comma, isnt in, the right, place, I got, some money, that I, saved from, my job, and what, the foundation, pays me, but not, much and, I dont, see how, a comma, keeps, you from, losing it, But, she says, everybody, uses commas, so Ill, use them, too,,,, April ~ Daniel Keyes

Centers of influence are wholistic ministry centers, which connect church members with their communities and "place [them] where they will come in direct contact with those needing help."4 ~ May Ellen Colon

Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the entire colon. I say, don't vie CBS an idea for another reality show. ~ Bill Maher

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. ~ Joey Santiago

If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a "rolling stop"; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road. ~ Roy Peter Clark

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in. ~ Ernie Colon

How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying, 'Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote no comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last person on earth period close quotes Quote well comma I'm not so the point does not arise comma close quotes replied Sir Jasper twirling his moustache cynically period And so the long day wore on period End of chapter.'
If I had to do that sort of thing I should be feeling all the time that the girl was saying to herself as she took it down, 'Well comma this beats me period How comma with homes for the feebleminded touting for custom on every side comma has a man like this succeeded in remaining at large mark of interrogation. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later. ~ Suzan Colon

The stops point out, with truth, the time of pause
A sentence doth require at ev'ry clause.
t ev'ry comma, stop while one you count;
At semicolon, two is the amount;
A colon doth require the time of three;
The period four, as learned men agree. ~ Cecil B. Hartley

I never did mind my birthday. Adding up the years made me fearless the true killer of my life was always Valentines Day. ~ Evelyn Leilou Colon

To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable. ~ Eric Partridge

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot. ~ Alice Oswald

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block? ~ Cory Doctorow

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. ~ Emo Philips

If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much. ~ Tony Millionaire

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur. ~ Peter Block

Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw. ~ Ernie Colon

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, I think I missed you before I met you even. ~ Francesca Lia Block

To get over artist's block, make shitty art. ~ Dave Horowitz

Let it be known I am a fan of the comma; it gives cadence to my writing. Those who disagree are in their usual hurried state…not giving pause where a breath is due. ~ Nanette L. Avery

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline. ~ R.L. Stine

Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.
When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big. ~ Terry Pratchett

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box. ~ Country Joe McDonald

Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.
"I've always wondered about his name," said Nobby, turning and waving. "I mean ... Legitimate?"
"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby," said Colon. ~ Terry Pratchett

We have four blocks here. Block A, where we are now, is administration and recreation. Block B is software development. Block C is research and storage. Block D is where the main Stormbreaker assembly line is found." "Where's breakfast?" Alex asked. ~ Anthony Horowitz

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see. ~ Jeph Jacques

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) ~ Scott Westerfeld

Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create. ~ Peter Block

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died. ~ Francesca Lia Block

You can't doubt so much, Psyche ~ Francesca Lia Block

Picture-perfect, state-of-the-art vaginas lengthened using sections of colon, self-cleaning and lubricated with its own mucosa. Sensate clitorises made by cropping and rerouting bits of the glans penis. The Cadillac of vaginoplasty. Some of these Cadillacs turn out so succesful that the flood of colon mucosa means wearing a maxipad every day. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick. ~ Joni Mitchell

I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't. ~ Anne Ellis

If one has a routine colonoscopy at the age of 50 and then colonoscopies thereafter as the physician recommends, you could largely prevent colon cancer, you could detect it in its very earliest stages and cure it. ~ Laurie Glimcher

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music. ~ Ben Harper

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block. ~ Diana Gabaldon

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you. ~ Travis Barker

I dialed it now, and the machine picked up. I listened to a dead man's voice. I hung up, wondering how long it would be before someone unplugged the machine, how long before the telephone company cut off the phone service.
You don't die all at once. Not anymore. These days you die a little at a time. ~ Lawrence Block

I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends. ~ Terry Brooks

I didn't know that would be the last time I'd see him, his neck scar lit blue by the diner's neon marquee. To see that little comma again, to put my mouth there, let my shadow widen the scar until, at last, there was no scar to be seen at all, just a vast and equal dark sealed by my lips. A comma superimposed by a period the mouth so naturally makes. Isn't that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period? ~ Ocean Vuong

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block. ~ Tyler Hojberg

Comma in 'Beginning with a Comma' is the hiccup, not only a pause. One can never imagine where a breath pauses, where adolescence can get acquainted with adulthood, its shadow lines, blurred realities that make the appearance and likeliness a mere binary to each other! Comma is a mental conflict, therefore, I call it a hiccup, an 'uncomfortable' pause- one that either continues till you gulp down something else or vanishes forever, miraculous!
Gita, Crusades, Khalsa or Jihad- War has never been alien to world religions. But it is not the physical combat these wars symbolise, but the inner conflicts. In Gita, while Arjuna symbolizes a person who seeks salvation, Krishna is the God himself and it is the mental conflict which is Kurukshetra.

Epilogue, Beginning with a Comma ~ Amrit Sinha

Help me, Konichi Juan, you're my only hope! Suddenly, ~ Dr. Block

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four. ~ Muhammad Ali

all six of them a license." "That ~ Lawrence Block

MILFs rule Bonoboville ~ Susan Block

You're nothing short of my everything. ~ Ralph Block

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. ~ Lynne Truss

I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You ~ Lawrence Block

Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival. ~ Jennifer Block

Novels are written - as life is lived - One Day At A Time. ~ Lawrence Block

Why do anything unless it is going to be great? ~ Peter Block

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all. ~ Lawrence Block

I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name. ~ Larry Kahaner

Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself. ~ Winston Churchill

I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block. ~ Etgar Keret

Imaginative persons could probably find interesting things to do with handcuffs and a nightstick. ~ Lawrence Block

I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle. ~ Lawrence Block

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material. ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

He smells like night-blooming flowers
Crushed, juicy petals on the pillows
His voice is full of ocean
Humming like the surf
He kneels before me like I am his goddess
He is a god ~ Francesca Lia Block

Blue can also mean sad, ~ Block Boy

Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will. ~ Dan Block

Raise the question of what do we want to create together, even for an established institution. ~ Peter Block

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. ~ Carl Hiaasen

White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa. ~ Barbara Block

It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.
Mick Ballou ~ Lawrence Block

They told me I've got writer's cramp. So is that better than the block? ~ Joyce Rachelle

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families. ~ John Boyega

Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma. ~ Mark Batterson

Workaholism is a block, not a building block. ~ Julia Cameron

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress. ~ Neil Gaiman

When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites. ~ Christopher Dodd

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day. ~ Lawrence Block

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. ~ Mary Garden

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. ~ Mary Garden

You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. ~ John Rogers

What time are we upon and where do I belong? ~ Francesca Lia Block

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination. ~ Ayah Bdeir

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay. ~ Michel Gondry

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form ... ~ Francesca Lia Block

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock. ~ Lawrence Block

Why else were we here except to love? ~ Francesca Lia Block

air. I am still holding the scissors, pointing ~ Francesca Lia Block

A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man, ~ Lawrence Block

A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation. ~ Susan Block