In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?
I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.