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If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
Steven Wright
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. Lawrence
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis.
E. E. Cummings
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
Thomas Browne
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
J. D. Salinger
They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.
Daniel Handler
The theory of transparency was set up in reaction to the theory of mental images, of an inner tableu which the perception of an object would leave in us. In imagination our gaze always goes outward, but imagination modifies and neutralizes the gaze: the real world appears in it as it were between parenthesis or quote marks.
Emmanuel Levinas
These fellows, knowing the extravagant gullibility of the age, set their wits to work in the imagination of improbable possibilities - of odd accidents, as they term them; but to a reflecting intellect (like mine," I added, in parenthesis, putting my forefinger unconsciously to the side of my nose,) "to a contemplative understanding such as I myself possess, it seems evident at once that the marvelous increase of late in these 'odd accidents' is by far the oddest accident of all. For my own part, I intend to believe nothing henceforward that has anything of the 'singular' about it.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
Larry Wall
"tt>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */.
Larry Wall
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
Mario Benedetti
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
George Eliot
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams. It is because man, when he ceases to sleep, is above all the plaything of his memory, and in its normal state memory takes pleasure in weakly retracing for him the circumstances of the dream, in stripping it of any real importance, and in dismissing the only determinant from the point where he thinks he has left it a few hours before: this firm hope, this concern. He is under the impression of continuing something that is worthwhile. Thus the dream finds itself reduced to a mere parenthesis, as is the night. And, like the night, dreams generally contribute little to furthering our understanding. This curious state of affairs seems to me to call for certain reflections.
André Breton
The man steps past them, his cheeks seamed vertically in deep parentheses, as though it has been his habit frequently to smile. They do not see him smile. The Tao, he reminds himself, is older than God.
William Gibson
we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis.
E. E. Cummings
In parenthesis, and with due respect, it strikes the modern reader that Savarkar's writing is full of superlatives. In publications of lesser Hindutva writers, the situation is often much worse: they sound almost as emotional as Syed Shahabuddin's diatribes. After all that Rishis and Tirthankaras and Buddhas have taught about the value of dispassionate observation, it is disappointing to find that Hindu writers cannot keep their cool and go off on an emotional tangent of either bombastic glorification or sterile self-pity.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar