We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. — Alan Perlis 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
“On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses. I kept on walking.” — Peter James West Copy Share Image
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))). — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life. — Richard Cecil 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
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk. — Carol Shields 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
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
“within the asterisks are repeated three times in the sequence they’re given after the first time they’re worked. So, in total, the… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if… — Robert M. Price 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
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ...… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses… — Oriana Fallaci 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
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid… — George Will Copy Share Image
You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play.… — Edward Albee 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
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
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
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
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
“[...] please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ).” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Deepak Chopra 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
Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period. — John Donne 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
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“(Parentheses speak More than we dare say out loud Why, oh, why is that?)” — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
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