Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Skiles

Some guys play hard, some guys play harder. He's a hard-playing guy. I have never seen him do anything that was out of hand, over the top. In a league where a lot of players feel a degree of entitlement, a guy like him that doesn't feel that can stand out.

Diane Neal

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

National surveys and other studies have told us that the United States has a major weight problem, but this study suggests that we could have an even more serious degree of overweight and obesity (cases) over the next few decades.

My values tend to gravitate toward the older ways. There is a high degree of honor in being a troubadour. You sure can't be doing it for the money.

I think they (commissioners) have the right to examine procurement processes, but I think there is a degree of micromanagment here.

Jeff Burton

I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.

David Sanborn

I sat in with them, and I remember their jaws dropped. I could actually play. I had some degree of sense of time.

Barbara Walters

I think this is one of the most important pieces that I've ever done. I hope it will be inspirational and to some degree educational. I hate to say that because I don't want it to sound like Comparative Religion 101.

It is kind of disturbing that a lot of folks are graduating with a degree and they're not going to be able to do those things.

Lauren Willig

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

He's going to get his degree in four years, and I am so happy for that kid to be able to do that.

I think the main impact of the election has been a degree of uncertainty. Once we know who the president will be it will be very much like Y2K -- it will come and go. You have to focus on sales and earnings, and those have been pretty robust.

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.

Clay Aiken

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

William Hurt

What if you went to the nth degree to prove to yourself that you're the person you want to be? But you found that it's completely different from the person that you are, and you found yourself in a place that consistently refuted the facts as you sensed them?

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.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

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.

I wasn't really watching a lot of other divers I was just trying to zone in on my game. I was hitting every dive. When I hit one of those dives it was one of my really high dives, high degree of difficulty and I knew I had it.

K. Eric Drexler

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

Jules Verne

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Justin Rosenstein

Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.

Gary Cooper

Lower prices are likely to stimulate increased demand, but to what degree is unknown.

Joan Ganz Cooney

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Ben Jonson

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Markus Persson

'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

Leslie Miller

Obviously there was some degree of disappointment, especially with Venezuela and our counterparts a like,

Matthew Dowd

Obviously, his look has a high degree of intensity.

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.