Parentheses Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment… — Paulo Coelho
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk. — Carol Shields
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of 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 to… — Sarah Vowell
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which we… — Lynne Truss
They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses. — Daniel Handler
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver… — Jodi Picoult
I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a… — Mikhail Bulgakov
...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live… — Muriel Spark
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. — George Eliot
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. — Charles Dickens
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient.… — Deepak Chopra
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in… — John Donne
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity,… — Thomas Browne
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting… — Pico Iyer

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