Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andrew Schneider

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

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?

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.

Dolly Parton

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

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!

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.

Overall, 75 percent of the graduates in 1997, 1998 and 1999 ended up earning their degree from a Maine institution.

David Sanborn

I sat in with them, and I remember their jaws dropped. I could actually play. I had some degree of sense of time.

David Martin

People are saying one degree to the right or one degree to the left, we would have had a much worse situation. It is a true miracle.

People are really panicking. All I can tell them is they shouldn't worry too much about it, that they have to remember to some degree they really didn't pay for the miles.

Chevy Stevens

Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!

National surveys and other studies have told us that the United States has a major weight problem, but this study suggests that we could have an even more serious degree of overweight and obesity (cases) over the next few decades.

My values tend to gravitate toward the older ways. There is a high degree of honor in being a troubadour. You sure can't be doing it for the money.

Marisa is a skillful, tireless player who sees and plays the game 360 degrees with solid possession and distribution. Marisa comes from a long family tradition of Buckeyes.

Lauren Willig

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

I think they (commissioners) have the right to examine procurement processes, but I think there is a degree of micromanagment here.

Jeff Burton

I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Barbara Walters

I think this is one of the most important pieces that I've ever done. I hope it will be inspirational and to some degree educational. I hate to say that because I don't want it to sound like Comparative Religion 101.

I think, for the moment being, I just want to graduate with my degree and do something with golf.

Sri Lanka is going to have to take responsibility for its own problems and not look in any large degree for succor from the international community.

Scott Skiles

Some guys play hard, some guys play harder. He's a hard-playing guy. I have never seen him do anything that was out of hand, over the top. In a league where a lot of players feel a degree of entitlement, a guy like him that doesn't feel that can stand out.

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.

To the degree the mail-service pharmacy option can be more aggressively promoted and accepted, the better off seniors will be and better off the Medicare program will be.

To the degree that she reflects the franchise's style and savvy, she is well respected in a male-dominated sports property. That respect goes all the way up through the league's operations. She has established herself as one of the major team executives in all of sports.

To the degree that he is the consoler and healer of the nation, it helps.

David Cohen

The program itself inserts a degree of unpredictability,