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Tag Name "Parentheses" (12)

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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
DJ Spooky
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I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
J. D. Salinger
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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
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The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
Richard Cecil
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I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.
Beth Kephart
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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.
DJ Spooky
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
George Eliot
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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.
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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.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
William Strunk, Jr.