Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dolly Parton

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

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.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Brennan Manning

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

We really hope we find him, because the temperature is supposed to be about 48 degrees tonight and it's pouring out there.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

We'll be averaging about five degrees higher than normal.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Smelt like it around 42 degrees or higher.

In a weak labor market, people go to these schools to finish their degrees or get more credentials in hopes of eventually re-entering the work force,'

Joseph Banks

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

Robbie Coltrane

It's was very hot, too. It was 100 degrees when we were filming in the park in London where we did some of the outdoor stuff. It was a nightmare.

It was 26 degrees at 1 o'clock. There was ice everywhere.

It was 18 degrees out there, freezing cold, but I was so pumped up.

They are heated bays, but they aren't that heated. They don't get that warm when it's 8 degrees outside. It can only help so much.

Justin Upton

I haven't played in seven months and it's warmer out here. Back home, it's like 30 degrees and I can't get outside on the field.

John Wesley

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

John W. Gardner

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

Todor Zhivkov

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

Henry Rollins

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

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.

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

They finally all played well. It was 20-25 mph winds and it was 48 degrees when it started. But the team played well and persevered.

Joel Sternfeld

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.