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Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders. -- Pamela Frankau
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. -- Augustus William Hare
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ... -- Natalie Clifford Barney
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen. -- Tim McCarver
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible. -- Winston Churchill
Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen. -- Henry Winter
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. -- Woodrow Wilson
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. -- Laurence J. Peter
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens. -- Mary Norris
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. -- Toni Morrison
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. -- Frederick Lenz
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. -- Eric Partridge
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 -- Frank McCourt
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
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. -- Woodrow Wilson
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. -- Walter Bagehot
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. -- Woodrow Wilson
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
If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. -- Mary Norris

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