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
This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Deepak Chopra 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
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me… — Sylvia Plath 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
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
...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don't think that everyone should go there. I also… — DJ Spooky 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
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
“As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks… — Beth Kephart 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
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but… — Deepak Chopra 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
“Certain tight parentheses have been opened and allowed to spill their still active contents.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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
