Descant Quotes

#1. The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. I am wearied to death with life.
There's nothing it has that I want,
but I celebrate my naked earth,
there's no other world to descant.

Osip Mandelstam

#3. When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#4.
Why I, in this weak piping time of piece,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on my own deformity :
...

William Shakespeare

#5. The boy sang in a shrill high descant and seemed to be trying not to sing in tune.

Anton Chekhov

#6. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

Marjorie Benton Cooke

#7. Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Dan Brown

#8. Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.

Karen Azinger

#9. 'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.

Thomas Bangalter

#10. Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

Chris Harrison

#12. I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality ... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

Jessie J.

#13. The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.

Paula Berinstein

#14. Thing is, every place has its limitations and its benefits. And some children don't or can't follow the path of their siblings or the generations that came before them. Some traditions die, and that's okay. In the end, the only thing that counts is our relationship with God.

Beth Webb Hart

#15. The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Donald Barthelme

#16. There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.

Boyd Holbrook