Colon Quotes

“Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ("Tolerance zero")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

“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, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon.”
― Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

“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, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies

“She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.”
― Helen Hodgman, Blue Skies And Jack And Jill

“What is the use of the colon? What is a colon? Generally it opens onto an explanation, but it is always done with the help of an interruption. It can be said that the colon is not the period, it is the period of the period, the canceling of the period. It is a moment mute and marked; it is the most delicate tattoo of the text. It is also in place of, instead of, everything that would be causal. For example, when we read: "It's simply that: secret." "Secret," is a sentence, it is the shortest sentence perhaps. But it is a sentence in one word. It is a sentence that is secret and that at the same time says its name. One could invert and say: "Secret: it is simply that." This is secret, the secret is the secret of this, it is a word which makes infinite sense all by itself, it is a sentence which performs the secret itself [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989]”
― Hélène Cixous

“So how should you use a colon, to begin with? H. W. Fowler said that the colon "delivers the goods that have been invoiced in the preceding words", which is not a bad image to start off with.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.”
― Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies

“I thought about TimeBlaze. We should...shorten the titles. The titles are getting long. More colons than a proctologist.”
― D.C. Pierson, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To

“Kung ikaw, Blesilda, ano ang pipiliin mo: ang bagsakan ka ng bomba sa loob ng masjid sa Buliok o bigyan ka ng masigabong palakpakan ng mga Filipino?”
― Rogelio Braga, Colon

“Kung kay Ingrid naging isyu sa amin na magkaiba pala ang ‘bayan’ na pinagsisilbihan namin, sa mga kapatid kong Moro, iyong mga ‘modernong’ Moro ng ‘peace and order’ – hindi
ko alam kung iisa nga ba ang ‘bayan’ na tinutukoy namin.”
― Rogelio Braga, Colon

“Ang pag-ibig ay tila isa ring pananakop at ang mangingibig, isang dakilang mananakop; nais mo ng kasagutan at katubusan sa sarili mong pag-iisa, sa sarili mong kahinaan, sa mga katanungang hindi matapus-tapos ni matukoy sa simula. Ang trahedya ng pag-ibig ay kung sakaling makamtan mo na ang iniibig, hindi mo na alam kung ano ang gagawin mo sa kanya na nasa iyong mga kamay, at ayaw mo naman siyang pakawalan dahil hindi mo na makita ang pagkakaiba ng lumaya at umibig. Inaakala mo na kasi na ikaw at siya ay iisa, tinanggap mo na nang walang pagdududa na siya na ang iyong kahinaan o pinagmumulan ng lakas at ikaw ang kanyang kahinaan at pinagmumulan din ng lakas. At inaakala mo na ang nakaraan at bukas niya ay hawak mo sa iyong mga palad—at ganoon din siya sa iyo. Na ikaw, ikaw palagi ang nasa kanyang nakaraan. Na ang umibig ay ang tanging dakila at banal sa buhay. Malupit
na pananakop ang umibig kaya ko ito kinatatakutan.”
― Rogelio Braga, Colon

“At inaakala mo na ang nakaraan at bukas niya ay hawak mo sa iyong mga palad—at ganoon din siya sa iyo. Na ikaw, ikaw palagi ang nasa
kanyang nakaraan. Na ang umibig ay ang tanging dakila at banal sa buhay. Malupit
na pananakop ang umibig kaya ko ito kinatatakutan.”
― Rogelio Braga, Colon

“At inaakala mo na ang nakaraan at bukas niya ay hawak mo sa iyong mga palad—at ganoon din siya sa iyo. Na ikaw, ikaw palagi ang nasa kanyang nakaraan. Na ang umibig ay ang tanging dakila at banal sa buhay. Malupit na pananakop ang umibig kaya ko ito kinatatakutan.”
― Rogelio Braga, Colon

“In 2017 I became extremely ill with flu-like symptoms and was confined to bed for a week, 2018 was filled with colon issues that resulted in a colonoscopy removing a 5mm polyp from the sigmoid colon. Intestinal pains were a feature of high altitude workplaces and I had previously seen a gastroenterologist in 2006 for extreme intestinal pains that were so severe that I was falling over with them. The removed polyp was causing malnutrition to occur and I had been high dosing with nutritional supplements to offset it. My very high altitude coworker had died from fatal colon cancer.”
― Steven Magee

“In 2018 at the age of 48, many years after the onset of of various gastrointestinal problems while working at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea, I had a colonoscopy that removed a 5mm polyp from the sigmoid colon.”
― Steven Magee

“My coworker at very high altitude died from colon cancer and another coworker died from throat cancer.”
― Steven Magee

“Pay attention to what your coworkers have died from, as some of my coworkers have died from gastrointestinal disease.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Este mundo es de batallas y con hombres. Me pregunto si de día la mujer es necesaria. Es de noche, de noche y malherido que aparecen la mujer y las preguntas”
― Susana Villalba, La Luna en Harapos

“Adiós, mi compañero. Mi casa, mi nombre de animal. Adiós piel de venado con su olor, el pelo acostumbrado a su postura y el hueco de su abrazo. Adiós mi sujetado corazón a la única frontera que es la vida. Adiós a la multitud en uno solo. La única parte en que me pueden herir donde me duela. Adiós mi lengua, un tono que tuve al alabarte. Adiós a tu modo agazapado de caer. No puede uno morder su soledad sino como alacrán que se envenena”
― Susana Villalba

“It is important to do annual maintenance on the gastrointestinal tract.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements