Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Warren

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

David H. Murdock

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

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.

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.

We have a high degree of flexibility to reach out and touch our demographics. The Latino package is a prime example. We don't offer a Latino tier in every market because the market doesn't demand that. In Madison, a Latino tier is necessary and important to consumers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

Portability is a killer application with music and to a degree with movies, but the majority of movie and TV viewing is not on a small two-inch screen.

I was going to say Jack's a pragmatist - but that's to impute to Jack a degree of sophistication.

Susan Choi

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

Tom Piazza

I lost all my income for the fall because I was supposed to be teaching at Loyola (University) and I also do regular lectures on jazz in New Orleans, ... A number of friends helped me set all this up. ... It's been very moving - the degree of their concern.

I have a moderate degree of frustration. I'm just trying to do the right thing. I like trees. I hugged a redwood years ago.

Hannah Simone

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

Brendan Myers

I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

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.

To date, despite our many successes in individual businesses, we have not made the degree of progress we would like toward realizing that potential, ... We've assembled the right parts, but after years of additions, our resulting structure is neither as efficient nor as effective as it needs to be." ()

What we have done is look at each individual situation and look at the degree of risk the patient would be getting into,

He's a special person. No one knows how fair and ethical a person he is unless you've been around him. He has the highest degree of integrity. I'm glad he's staying around the state. I just wish I could see him win one (state championship).

I think it's a good time in terms of just finding ourselves. Maybe (getting) one more degree of each guy that can take us to another level.

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Erik Larson

There is a difference in what is focused upon, and the degree of disturbance that the person presents with,

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.