Tom Sturridge

Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

English Actor

Tom King

My scripts, they're pretty serious. I basically just describe stuff. I don't put too many notes and letters to the editors. But when I wrote 'KGBLT,' in parentheses I wrote, 'Well this is the best thing I've ever written. It will all be downhill from here. I'm so sorry for the rest of my career.

American Author

Wayne Dyer

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

American Psychologist

Jason Isbell

Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.

American Musician

Pico Iyer

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Indian Writer

Mario Benedetti

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.

Uruguayan Novelist

D. H. Lawrence

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

English Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

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

French Writer

Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

American Scientist

Steven Wright

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

American Comedian

Parentheses can add non-essential details that enrich the main point.

Additional Info

Use parentheses to avoid cluttering the sentence with commas.

Clarity in Writing

Information in parentheses is de-emphasized, signaling it's secondary.

Emphasis Reduction

Parenthesis can depict interruptions or breaks in historical or life events.

Conceptual Interruption

Indicates something that didn't greatly impact the surrounding events or narrative.

Minor Influence

Marks a temporary deviation from a norm or expected path.

Temporary Detour

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Seal Meat Deal PIPE Yukon...

 This string of letters and numbers and symbols and parentheses that can be texted, I suppose, or Twittered worldwide, is the chemical identity of our pro compound. It's the information that we most need from pharmaceutical companies,

Jay Bradner: Open-source...

 Axiom no matter where we put parentheses when we're doing a single group operation, we still get the same result. In other words, if we turn our square right two times, then right once, that's the same as once, then twice,

Parenthesis

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Clarity in Writing

Emphasis Reduction

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