Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Oliver Sacks

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

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.

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.

Lionel Trilling

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

John Malkovich

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

John L. Lewis

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Justin Chadwick

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

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.

Kami Garcia

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

John Clare

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

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.

Jim Jarmusch

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

Dasha Zhukova

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

Paul Auster

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

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?

Nic Pizzolatto

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Noam Chomsky

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

Jodi Picoult

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Mehmet Oz

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

Michel de Montaigne

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

G. H. Hardy

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

Jonathan Haidt

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.