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Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis. -- Wilfred Trotter
The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity. -- Thomas Browne
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis -- e. e. cummings
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. -- Alan Perlis
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society -- Nicolas Chamfort
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life. -- Richard Cecil
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. -- D. H. Lawrence
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. -- Alexander MacLaren
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Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living. -- Sonia Rykiel
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. -- Charles Dickens
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses. -- William Strunk, Jr.
I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way. -- Beth Kephart
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 pay a cruel price. -- Oriana Fallaci
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses. -- James Tiptree Jr.
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 me that we should use any God-given talent we had. -- Gail Devers
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 usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres. -- Jimmy Page
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue. -- John Berger
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches. -- Richard Whately
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; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind. -- Sylvia Plath
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 to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. -- Paulo Coelho
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. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile. -- Deepak Chopra
Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country. -- George Will
They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses. -- Daniel Handler
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. -- Steven Wright
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. -- George Eliot
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
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
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 they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.' -- Robert M. Price
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 at one another in block capitals. -- Pico Iyer
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 call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets] -- Lynne Truss

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