Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wole Soyinka

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

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.

Alex Borstein

I got my degree in rhetoric.

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.

Tom Stoppard

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cliff Martinez

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

We always lost X percentage to home ownership, but you always had that kid graduating from school with a degree who got a job with Lucent Technologies or something, ... But, now there's no more Lucent.

With our film, we were trying to show a group of people who have experienced degrees of fame and it's either been fleeting or they're trying to regain it.

Evan Williams

Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.

LZ Granderson

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

Hill Harper

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Banks

I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

B. F. Skinner

There are a number of studies published that report on varying degrees of effectiveness. But there are also a lot of studies that point to the fact that the vaccines are effective in preventing the serious complications that lead to hospitalizations and death, and that's an important note that we should never lose sight of.

David Trimble

There has been useful work done. There has been a degree of progress but ... it's not all there yet.

We knew there were some constraints but not to the degree that it ended up manifesting itself in terms of revenues.

We thought he might have been (a chance) but he trained during the week and he's still in a fair degree of pain with it. I don't imagine that will change.