Top 32 Digress Quotes
#2. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen
#3. The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
W. Somerset Maugham
#4. Snippets from here and there - she's old, she tends to digress
Kavita Kane
#5. There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
Elizabeth McCracken
#6. For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
Donna Tartt
#7. When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.
Stephen Furst
#8. She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. 'Get to the point; don't allow the subject to digress' was one of them
Renita D'Silva
#9. He found he was popular, known for a loose style and an appealing willingness to digress. "We spend most of our time talking about Twin Peaks and The Simpsons so they think I am an okay caballero," he told Markson.
D.T. Max
#10. Annabeth rubbed the clay beads on her necklace, the way she does when she's thinking. She looked beautiful. But I digress.
Rick Riordan
#11. Beer may cause you to digress - and lead a happier life.
Michael Jackson
#12. Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
Bill Hybels
#13. Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#14. Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
T. S. Eliot
#15. Every man has an inner caveman. Unless he's a flaming queen, in which case he has an inner wild-eyed, jealous bitch - as in the case of an ex of mine. But I digress.
Tammara Webber
#17. I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.
Simone De Beauvoir
#18. E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again.
Gabrielle Zevin
#19. As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#20. A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks
#21. In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited
although intentionally limited
set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.
Kelly Link
#22. Am I boring you? I don't really care, I suppose, but I'll be more comfortable if I knew all this interested you. No doubt when I get the hang of storytelling, after a chapter or two, I'll go faster and digress less often.
John Barth
#24. I close my eyes, hoping to lose myself in the darkness but strangely, all I see are colors. How's that even possible? I'm going blind from my arousal.
Alexandra Iff
#25. It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
Charles Lyell
#26. Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
Michael Clarke Duncan
#28. Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.
Charles Duhigg
#29. In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
P. J. O'Rourke
#30. Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Alexis Carrel
#31. History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.
Mao Zedong
#32. The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God
Oswald Chambers
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