Quotes About Digressions

#1. [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Richard Armour

#2. I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

Richard Dawkins

#3. I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.

Daniel Woodrell

#4. In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.

Howard Gordon

#5. Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

Dejan Stojanovic

#6. Sometimes people say, 'You're the best at digressions.' And that's actually a real compliment to me.

Mike Birbiglia

#7. Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

William Vickrey

#9. Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

Joseph Joubert

#10. Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Laurence Sterne

#11. I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.

Natalie MacLean

#12. The novels of our lives are written only partly by ourselves; other forces regularly grab the pen, interpolating strange deviations and digressions, enforced changes of pace, character or plot.

Anna Lyndsey

#13. There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

Horace Walpole

#14. By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Isaac Watts

#16. I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

Dave Grohl

#17. The other is missed chances.

Stephen King

#18. Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them.

Shane Smith

#19. Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

Nancy Pelosi

#20. I just like to make people laugh.

Andrew Dice Clay

#21. I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

Jonathan Demme

#22. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

Okakura Kakuzo

#23. Like Abraham, as we embark on our own journey, have a lil faith, take the imparted wisdoms from our parents/teachers, go forward and be attentive always to the quiet voice of your heart

Daniel Gottlieb

#24. I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Emma Watson

#25. I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something that you don't know what's going to happen because I think that kind of pleasure of finding something new and discovering it, creates a hunger in you.

Elvis Mitchell

#26. I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Carlos Delgado

#27. Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Ambrose Bierce

#28. I shan't take advantage,' Lucius promised seriously. 'And she can't be forced into a marriage, of course. It is a new century. Unfortunately. But I am afraid that I am compelled to pursue this courtship until Antanasia realizes her place at my side. As she will.'
'I will not.

Beth Fantaskey

#29. God-willing and prayerfully, we are always growing and changing and developing personally and professionally.

Kim Fields