Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Bertrand Russell

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

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.

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.

Jeff Francoeur

If it weren't for Phillip Wellman I wouldn't be here right now. He's the one who got me going, taught me about patience at the plate and who showed me how to work. You'd go out there some afternoons in Pearl and it would seem like 180 degrees in that cage, but that's what it takes.

Scott Bakula

I grew up in St. Louis, and I don't know if you've ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the temperature can be over 100 degrees and the humidity can be 100 percent.

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.

Alan Dershowitz

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

We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.

This winter has been several degrees warmer than usual. Normally, we would predict highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s.

There are varying degrees of pain, but I don't think there are going to be many sectors that are not going to be impacted,

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Ben Jonson

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

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.

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.

Cliff Martinez

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

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.

Hill Harper

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

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.

Paul Simon

The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

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.

We were stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., which is about as far southeast as you can go. It was hot, hot, hot - nearly 100 degrees - and very humid every day.

Tim Dorsey

You know the six degrees of Kevin Bacon?

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.

Scott Rolen

Right now I'm turned loose and I'm hitting off the tee and playing golf, running, lifting, strength training, lifting as much as I want to lift. I'm not restricted right now. In my range of motion, I'm right at the very end of everything -- five degrees is what they're telling me.

Diane Neal

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

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.

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.