Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have been trying to make breakthroughs in the degree of difficulty in the summer training.

We're really not at liberty to talk about it. What I can tell you is that Gavin is a true gentleman, and he is working hard to pursue his degree at N.C. State.

Paula McLain

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

Piet Mondrian

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

We have spent four years communicating that it will be cold. Dress for it and you're going to have fun. I'm praying for a nice, sunny 32 degree day.

Most measures of the labor market indicate that the degree of slack is slowly disappearing.

Alan Davis

Microsoft might participate in a rally to a greater degree than it has in the past year and a half, ... But it's not going to be a high-flier.

You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You're in it together. To a degree that people don't realize, documentary films - or at least the kind of documentary films I'm interested in - are a collaborative undertaking with the subjects.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

I wasn't really watching a lot of other divers I was just trying to zone in on my game. I was hitting every dive. When I hit one of those dives it was one of my really high dives, high degree of difficulty and I knew I had it.

The problem is you talk to one side and get one view and you talk to the other side and you get a view 180 degrees to the opposite.

Bob Graham

When it's fully in place, it will make us stronger and more secure, ... There will inevitably be a time of learning who your new partners are, what the new rules and expectations are, and during that transition time, we may actually see some degree of lessened homeland security.

We hope this is now the start of regular sharing that doesn't involve the degree of negotiations we've had and we'll see not only a one-off shipment but regular shipments.

Jim Yong Kim

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

We had proved that increased funding, increased support and a higher degree of planning can have an impact on the field of play. We didn't want to lose sight of that and just rest on our laurels. We wanted to put what we learned into practice for 2006 immediately.

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.

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.

The market is still nervous and directionless, and it is still looking for a reason to do one thing or the other. In the meantime, it does whatever it does to a modest degree and then breathes a sight of relief and says we got through that one without much trouble,

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.

Lord Chesterfield

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Malcolm Forbes

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

Oliver Sacks

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

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.

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.

Smelt like it around 42 degrees or higher.

That's always a tough call. The guys at Northeastern have a great degree of loyalty to me, and I have a great loyalty to them.

Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.

John Cullum

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.