A Quote by James Tiptree Jr.

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.

Quote Topics

Abide Accidentally Always Am Because Day Full Get Great Great Day Guess Liberation Parentheses Revolutions Those

Quote Author

James Tiptree Jr.
American - Author
August 24, 1915 - May 19, 1987

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

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

Steven Wright

You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.

Alice Cooper

I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.

John Polson

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.

Oriana Fallaci

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

NeNe Leakes

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Daniel Handler

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

George Eliot

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.

Diane Lane

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

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

Carol Shields

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Richard Cecil

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I loved the writing, I loved the making of it. Because I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one. So the next one was always, "how am I going to do this?" And that thing was sort of always the thing that made me a little chickenshit to go into the next one. The writing of it was great and the making of it was great, but how am I going to release this thing and am I going to find a studio?