Parentheses Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

• You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. — Alexander MacLaren
• We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
• Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period. — John Donne
• There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux
• The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society — Nicolas Chamfort
• This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Deepak Chopra
• Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you… — Oriana Fallaci
• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative… — Beth Kephart
• A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. — William Strunk, Jr.
• Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living. — Sonia Rykiel
• The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity. — Thomas Browne
• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and… — Gail Devers
• A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster
• We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. — Alan Perlis
• What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis;… — Sylvia Plath
• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. — D. H. Lawrence
• If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. — Steven Wright
• What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. — John Irving
• since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring… — E E Cummings
• life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis — E E Cummings

Who Wrote These Parentheses Quotes

31 authors contributed a total of 35 Parentheses Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Parentheses Quotes by Deepak Chopra
• 2 Parentheses Quotes by Thomas Browne
• 2 Parentheses Quotes by E E Cummings
• 2 Parentheses Quotes by John Donne
• 1 Parentheses Quote by John L'Heureux
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Sonia Rykiel
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Gail Devers
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Paulo Coelho
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Muriel Spark
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Oriana Fallaci
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Beth Kephart
• 1 Parentheses Quote by William Strunk, Jr.
• 1 Parentheses Quote by E. M. Forster
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Alan Perlis
• 1 Parentheses Quote by D. H. Lawrence
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Steven Wright
• 1 Parentheses Quote by John Irving
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Carol Shields
• 1 Parentheses Quote by J D Salinger
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Sarah Vowell
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Lynne Truss
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Daniel Handler
• 1 Parentheses Quote by Jodi Picoult