Famous Quotes & Sayings

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Nick Fradiani

I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

Neil Cross

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.

The question in most people's minds right now is not about how large growth can be, it's the degree to which the market is going flat.

Tom Stoppard

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

Adam Clarke

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

Mike Nichols

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Nick Nolte

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

Pete Townshend

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Allan Gurganus

My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Kat Graham

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

Bob Newhart

I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

Elizabeth Warren

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

Alex Borstein

I got my degree in rhetoric.

We are not absentee mill owners enjoying fun in the sun in the Caribbean. We are here every day, in 5 degree weather, with all the issues that come with running a mill of this size, trying to make this work.

Robert Nozick

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The degree to which these people were willing to share the little they had, did make me feel rather guilty about not doing more for them.

The degree of retreat was greater than ever before.

Nick Hornby

The degree of examination that goes on in film is very interesting for a writer, because there's not a line that goes unchallenged in a script.

The degree of difficulty has been exponentially increased by Katrina.

Adrian McKinty

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

Bob Newhart

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

Scott Rolen

Right now I'm turned loose and I'm hitting off the tee and playing golf, running, lifting, strength training, lifting as much as I want to lift. I'm not restricted right now. In my range of motion, I'm right at the very end of everything -- five degrees is what they're telling me.

People want to be from a place people have heard of. We want to increase the value of a degree from UR.

Portability is a killer application with music and to a degree with movies, but the majority of movie and TV viewing is not on a small two-inch screen.

I was going to say Jack's a pragmatist - but that's to impute to Jack a degree of sophistication.

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

There is a reasonable degree of flexibility. Where there is a will there is a way.

Tom Piazza

I lost all my income for the fall because I was supposed to be teaching at Loyola (University) and I also do regular lectures on jazz in New Orleans, ... A number of friends helped me set all this up. ... It's been very moving - the degree of their concern.

Joan Ganz Cooney

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.