#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

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#acting #before #i #started

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#beneath #emotion #even #everything #far

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#cannot #new #old #said #something