Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is very strong evidence, particularly when you get to over 50, that the degree to which you maintain your mental faculty depends on a number of quite simple environmental and behavioural factors,

This is not a 'whodunit' case. It is for you to determine his degree of guilt.

This is relatively easy to exploit. It takes some degree of social engineering -- the attacker would have to draw people to a malicious Web site -- but after that, there's no further intervention required. An attacker could leverage this to write to a file on the hard drive. And once you can write to a person's machine, you have full control.

The temperature reached as high as 2,500 degrees Kelvin during the tests. High temperatures mean high acceleration.

The temperature gets up to 85, 90 degrees and it gets pretty ripe in there. You're not in there reading the paper, that's for sure.

The success of the tournament can be measured by one thing and one thing principally. And that is to the degree players come out of it telling their fellow players that it was a lot of fun and they made a mistake by not playing.

Aldous Huxley

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Douglas Cliggott

Realistically, if it eliminates a degree of risk about the future, that's good news.

Rather than thinking about it mechanically, I can go with my instincts. I'm 360 degrees since the day I started last year.

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

Caroline Knapp

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Carmen Ejogo

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

Kenneth Arrow

I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.

Moby

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Moby

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

J. K. Rowling

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

Harold Brodkey

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

Jerry Bridges

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

Jerry Bridges

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Jim Jarmusch

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

Giuliana Sgrena

How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.

The night hours were rough. Those jobs didn't last long. I went to graduate school at TSC and received my Master's Degree in counseling.

Tom Renney

You try to generate some things that might be able to give you a push, I'm not sure we got it to the degree that we hoped to. Then again, we lost, so I guess that speaks volumes.

Their earnings are in line with expectations for this quarter and the next, but there was no upside and the stock was priced for some degree of upside.

The Fed did not lower the fed funds rate, but their statement indicates a 180 degree about-face in terms of their view of the risks facing the economy, ... It looks to me they're ready to do what they have to do when they have to do it. They just aren't exactly sure when they have to do it.

I'm glad that the team needs me to such a degree but it's hard for me to give a quick answer.

Danielle Fishel

I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy.

Talking with people in the Research Triangle (in North Carolina), they had plenty of people with master's degrees and doctorates when they started. What they needed were technicians and a workforce.

Willie Anderson

It's a new feeling for us. I always thought it would be freezing and zero degrees right now. That's how I always pictured the week of a playoff game in Cincinnati.

It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.

Each of us has been touched to one degree or another by the Mario story, not just the night in question, but Mario the young man. He's an extraordinary person.