Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ty Wigginton

Every position has its pros and cons, its degrees of difficulty. It's completely different from playing the infield.

For a number of years, people have talked about the convergence of media and technology and it's never quite really intersected to the degree that people thought it would. He's a visionary. He is somebody who is uniquely able to meld the two camps.

John Roberts

It's one of those things I think is difficult to put yourself in that position and say, well, with any degree of confidence, if I were suffering and confronting the end of life, this is what I would want to do,

It's a lot of pitches to throw in 92 degree weather.

Caroline Knapp

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Carmen Ejogo

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

Kenneth Arrow

I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.

Moby

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Moby

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

Harold Brodkey

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

Her degree of difficulty has been lifted from 7.30 to 7.85, which is pretty high. But we also want to make sure her performance is stable.

J. K. Rowling

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

Jerry Bridges

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

Jerry Bridges

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

Identity theft is a huge problem, and every number and indicator shows that it's on the rise. This is not a question of six degrees of separation -- everybody knows somebody who's been a victim.

I can remember, even on up to the job I have now, some fair degree of uncertainty about whether I was the right person or was going to turn out to have the talents that it would take. Not just to be a manager or a CEO, but to be a good one.

I don't like to be this positive, but I genuinely think E-Trade is doing something very good here. I think they've been targeted to a degree because they've made it easy for people to open brokerage accounts, but they're not conservative. They really are innovative in security.

By Saturday, the temperatures were down to 84 degrees but by Sunday it was back up to 90 degrees.

By offering this scholarship, Eastman hopes to encourage and enable high school seniors to pursue degrees or certificates in the technical jobs we need to fill.

He told us that he received a degree from an online university. We don't understand what the issue is.

Milan Kundera

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

Jimmy Carter

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

The maintenance crews use four-foot thermometers to monitor the mix. We need to reach 130 degrees for a minimum of three days; typically, we've been maintaining 150 degrees. When the temperature drops, it's time to turn the pile.

Heinrich Himmler

I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.

Henry R. Luce

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Jonathan Swift

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Oliver Sacks

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

Emma Watson

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

John Hodgman

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

John Berger

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

George Crabbe

Good is done by degrees.