A Quote by Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Carol Shields

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Carol Shields
Canadian - Novelist
May 16, 1935 - July 16, 2003

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

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Daniel Handler

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Alan Lightman

You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

Richard Sherman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Alan Lightman

I have an aluminium trunk that I came to Delhi with. God has given me a lot in the last 27 years, but that trunk remains with me. I can return to Motihari with that trunk but I have my family to support.

Ravish Kumar

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 own A LOT of shoes; I am not sure how many. My three favorite pairs would have to be a black pair of Christian Louboutins; they were the first pair I ever bought and still wear them! A pair of cream YSL pumps that are great for spring/summer and a pair of YSL wedges that I wear with everything.

Kristin Cavallari

When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.

Sherry Argov

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Jonny Lang

... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.

Trenton Lee Stewart

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Beth Kephart

Not chasing success, I want to focus on my process. If I do that, eventually everything gets sorted out.

Jasprit Bumrah

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

Alan Alda

Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.

Frederick Lenz

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Democritus

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