Famous Quotes & Sayings

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Leslie Miller

Obviously there was some degree of disappointment, especially with Venezuela and our counterparts a like,

Matthew Dowd

Obviously, his look has a high degree of intensity.

Getting the degree was important and something I had put off a long, long time,

Brendan Myers

I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

I have a moderate degree of frustration. I'm just trying to do the right thing. I like trees. I hugged a redwood years ago.

Hannah Simone

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

I can't imagine taking another job in sports, ... I have no interest in professional athletics. Pacific happens to be a place I have two degrees from and I think I can help.

I don't have a Harvard degree you honor, ... So you got to help me out here.

Jan Egeland

I did say this was one of the world's neglected emergencies. The victims of the terror are still neglected to a high degree and the situation unabated. We need to do more.

I'd like the players to know that to some degree they won't be judged on what they did. To some point they will. I want them to know they're going to have a shot to show us they deserve to be on the field.

Alan Dershowitz

There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

Al Gore

The center of the earth is about a million degrees.

Charles Babbage

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Charles Babbage

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

LZ Granderson

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

Clay Aiken

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Andrew Schneider

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

Chuck Palahniuk

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Ambrose Bierce

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Anne M. Mulcahy

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

William Hurt

What if you went to the nth degree to prove to yourself that you're the person you want to be? But you found that it's completely different from the person that you are, and you found yourself in a place that consistently refuted the facts as you sensed them?

Dolly Parton

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

Connie Britton

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Dan Savage

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

Cliff Martinez

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

I think it's a good time in terms of just finding ourselves. Maybe (getting) one more degree of each guy that can take us to another level.

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

To date, despite our many successes in individual businesses, we have not made the degree of progress we would like toward realizing that potential, ... We've assembled the right parts, but after years of additions, our resulting structure is neither as efficient nor as effective as it needs to be." ()