The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way. — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
I was in the Justice Department for three years. I remember my entry briefing by the CIA. I can tell the date… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
