“I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
“I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.”
Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects
Source: Sharp Objects
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 19 (2 October 1843)
“I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it.”
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) theoretical physicist
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Printonly/Dirac.html
“You can't fight a war on terror if you're ending a sentence with a preposition.”
John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise
April 25, 2006
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never end a sentence with a preposition,” he recited.
“Not never; just seldom.”
Ross Thomas (1926–1995) 1926-1995 American writer
Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Lynn Asprin (1946–2008) American science fiction and fantasy author
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)