Adventure Quote by Anne Carson

Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which…

— Lynne Truss

“[...] please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ).”

— J.D. Salinger

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention…

— Sarah Vowell

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

— Anonymous

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

— D. H. Lawrence

Parenthesis-proud, bracket-bold, happiest with hyphens, The writers stagger intoxicated by terms, adjective-unsteadied

— Anthony Brode

“As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in opening up…

— Lynne Truss

I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out…

— Helene Hanff

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated.…

— Richard Whately

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

— Nicolas Chamfort

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

— Linus Pauling

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone…

— Helene Hanff