Top 37 Quotes About Digression
#1. Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
Robert Burns
#3. If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can't have that kind of thing, cut it out!
Jeet Thayil
#5. Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#6. 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
#7. I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#8. Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.
Bennett Madison
#9. Circumlocution," said Mr. Croup to Mr. Vandemar. "It's a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity.
Neil Gaiman
#11. Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
Ray Bradbury
#12. Nothing is more to the point than a good digression.
Ralph Caplan
#14. The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful ...
Victor Hugo
#15. Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn't always look productive.
Gretchen Rubin
#16. Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems to have nothing to do with the main narrative but is in fact its cornerstone..
Jonathan Coe
#17. Oh, I don't know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don't know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.
J.D. Salinger
#18. In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
G. Willow Wilson
#20. The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.
Mason Cooley
#21. I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.
Herschel Walker
#22. But one thing was quite clear ... " [Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway] wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.
Erik Larson
#23. Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
Mike Mills
#24. You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.
Ransom Riggs
#25. One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
Samantha Harvey
#26. If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.
Azzedine Alaia
#27. The more power one gives to his thought
the more completely he believes that his thought has power
the more power will it have.
Ernest Holmes
#29. I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.
John Irving
#30. Present and future, Harry Potter ... ' He pulled Harry's wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves: I AM LORD VOLDEMORT
J.K. Rowling
#31. If you close your eyes you see darkness, but if you keep them closed for long enough, you'll see light." -I've once said a similar quote like this to my friend only to realize it's from Skins. It is still my favourite quote until now.
Skins
#32. Some days I'm to sip you. Some days I'm to be drowned.
Erica Alex
#33. Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.
Jan Koum
#34. Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!
Pawan Mishra
#35. I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.
David Ogilvy
#36. You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
Phil McGraw
#37. Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.
C.S. Lewis
