Brackets Quotes

#1. When you get an e-mail and reply to the sender, you simply obliterate everything they sent you and then, in small square brackets, write: [deletia] It stands for everything that's been lost.

Douglas Coupland

#2. To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Tina Brown

#3. People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

George MacDonald

#4. On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life. I flipped to the middle of the nearest magazine. The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle.

Sylvia Plath

#5. I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

Charles Vest

#6. While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

Tim Bishop

#7. Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

Lauren Slater

#8. I've left it unedited, which means you'll get to see the [brackets] I insert to remind myself to research things or fix things later. In this case, I fixed things by writing a different story.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#9. Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

Cynthia Breazeal

#10. Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Conversely, the biophilia hypothesis, as Wilson calls it, also explains why we find natural settings so peaceful. It's in our genes. That's why, each year, more people visit zoos than attend all sporting events combined.

Eric Weiner

#12. Wisdom isn't bound by wealth brackets, status or caste, religion or pedigree. She feeds all who come to her hungry.

D.M. Anthony

#13. The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).

W.C. Sellar

#14. And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

Clifford D. Simak

#15. Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.

Rick Scott

#16. I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

Jon Postel

#17. While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#18. I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

Idina Menzel

#19. Whoring is like military service ... okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

A. Theodore Tuttle

#21. Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

Gemma Arterton

#22. This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

Jack Kingston

#23. I have the distinct feeling I'm not in Oz anymore,' said Brrr.

Gregory Maguire

#24. Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.

Suze Orman

#25. I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Alex Cox

#26. Brackets come in various shapes, types and names:
1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses)
2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets]

Lynne Truss

#27. The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. I tested the brackets by hitting them with rocks. This kind of sophistication is what we interplanetary scientists are known for.

Andy Weir

#29. We need to get some fauns up in this piece.

Lev Grossman

#30. ...the predominant odors of sauerkraut and schnitzel that had always made me feel a part of my mother's life, the part before she met my father and the brackets of disappointment that marked each side of her mouth had become permanent.

Beatriz Williams

#31. With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

Robert Genn

#32. Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Paul Rand

#33. Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

Bradley A. Smith

#34. A sword and a shotgun lay across brackets in the wall, the rhinestones that covered them glittering under the overhanging lightbulb. Ethan startled

Blake Crouch