#bout

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

Much has been written about the life of the mind. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#been #life #mind #much #written

Write about winter in the summer. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#summer #winter #write

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#asked #been #cheap #couple #fang

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#broadcaster #delivers #knowledge #matter #programmes

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. ↗

— Jim Dine

#attitude #best #clearly #drawing #i

Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#been #company #everything #i #just

Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#actually #attack #cholesterol #down #had

Racing, for me and for most people that watch it, it's about personalities. ↗

— Scott Dixon

#me #most #people #personalities #racing

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#am #belong #composer #fashioned #i