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  • Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.56, Penguin
  • 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.

  • You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

    Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
  • Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

  • 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, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

    Time   Thinking   Long  
    Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194
  • 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.

    Children   War   Effort  
  • You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm talking like you go around it. Leave it alone. Let it exist. And what I want people to see with this film is not only a respect for this place from the bottom of my heart.

    Heart   Mean   Talking  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

    Pairs   Trunks   Buried  
  • The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

    Art   Secret   Literature  
  • 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 houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  • 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.

    Men   Long   Leaving  
    Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213
  • A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

  • 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 a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.

    Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.333, University of Chicago Press
  • They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

  • This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

    Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.76, Amber-Allen Publishing
  • 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.

    Moving   Mean   Rocks  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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 in parenthesis.

  • 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.

    Love   Wind   People  
  • 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 is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

    Spring   Flower   Fate  
  • A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that? Where the characters seem to come to a pause... where they seem to want to stop - rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music.

    Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • 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.

    Life   Journey   Dancing  
    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 20, 2017
  • Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.

    Source: deadline.com
  • I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.44, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Country   Real   Fighting  
  • Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

    Charles Dickens (2016). “Bleak House (Diversion Classics)”, p.185, Diversion Books
  • The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative things that appeal to people, that The Arabian Nights could be used as a disguise for racism. It suited the West. You could smuggle racism into children's literature, you see. The African magician in the story of Aladdin, he's labeled explicitly as the "African Magician." He's not a character but a stereotype, and a lot of this got into nursery literature in this Oriental disguise.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don't think that everyone should go there. I also think that we need to respect it as a kind of a national park for the planet. It should be you know put in parentheses.

    "Creating Melodic Landscapes in Antarctica". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.
  • If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

    Funny   Humor   Computer  
  • 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 transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.

    Writing   Night   Balls  
  • The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

    Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194
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