Detracts Quotes

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.