A Quote by John Berger

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. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

John Berger

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John Berger
English - Novelist
November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

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

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

John Donne

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

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

Sonia Rykiel

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

Deepak Chopra

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

Wilfred Trotter

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

Nicolas Chamfort

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

John L'Heureux

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

Alexander MacLaren

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

I believe that I would not have smoked had I seen a label on a cigarette package or in a cigarette ad that said 'Warning: Cigarette smoking may cause death from heart disease, cancer or emphysema.'

Amanda Blake

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

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.

Thomas Browne

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

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