Top 37 I Digress Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Annabeth rubbed the clay beads on her necklace, the way she does when she's thinking. She looked beautiful. But I digress.
Rick Riordan
#7. 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
#8. My fans truly are a part of me, we share something that most people will never experience.
Michael Jackson
#9. Beer may cause you to digress - and lead a happier life.
Michael Jackson
#11. I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me.
Stephen King
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.
Stephen Furst
#15. I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it's not obvious what that is." "I agree with you," Holden said. "Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times.
James S.A. Corey
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Snippets from here and there - she's old, she tends to digress
Kavita Kane
#19. All I can say is that every time I'm with him, she's there. She walks through every game I play with him. She whispers behind me every time I talk to him. When we draw, she's there. When we build blocks, she's there. When I scold him, she's there. Whenever I look up, she's there.
Siri Hustvedt
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
Dan Gelber
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks
#26. We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?
Seth Godin
#27. Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking.
Auliq Ice
#28. I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
Laurie Anderson
#29. People who do great work have a different set of criteria for declaring a job complete: whereas the typical definition of complete is "the work is done," the great work definition of complete is "a difference is made".
David Sturt
#31. Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?"
"I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks."
"All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#32. I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D.H. Lawrence
#33. The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
Jimmy Cliff
#34. Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
T. S. Eliot
#35. New York State like many other states, found it was much less expensive to provide services for brain injured people at home instead of a hospital or nursing home.
Amy Rankin
#36. 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
#37. I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.
Barry Eisler
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