All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
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.
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.
Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.
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?
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.
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
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.
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
