Famous Quotes & Sayings

Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.

Tom Stoppard

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

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.

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.

Allan Gurganus

My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Kat Graham

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

Bob Newhart

I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

The question in most people's minds right now is not about how large growth can be, it's the degree to which the market is going flat.

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.

Robert Nozick

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

The degree of retreat was greater than ever before.

Nick Hornby

The degree of examination that goes on in film is very interesting for a writer, because there's not a line that goes unchallenged in a script.

The degree of difficulty has been exponentially increased by Katrina.

Tim Dorsey

You know the six degrees of Kevin Bacon?

Robert Shaw

We never imagined that we would have the opportunity or the need to gear up with this type of planning ... It's not an occurrence that I would expect to repeat during my career. I can say that with some degree of relief but mostly pride in the entire team having risen to this occasion.

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.

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.

We always lost X percentage to home ownership, but you always had that kid graduating from school with a degree who got a job with Lucent Technologies or something, ... But, now there's no more Lucent.

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.

Evan Williams

Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.

Emily Berrington

I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

Philip Agee

Well, I would like to see people ignore the law, that is to the degree the law doesn't have any meaning anymore,

To the degree the mail-service pharmacy option can be more aggressively promoted and accepted, the better off seniors will be and better off the Medicare program will be.

To the degree that she reflects the franchise's style and savvy, she is well respected in a male-dominated sports property. That respect goes all the way up through the league's operations. She has established herself as one of the major team executives in all of sports.

David Cohen

The program itself inserts a degree of unpredictability,

Chiang Kai-shek

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

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.

Banks

I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

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.

Russell Jones

We were seeing, touching and hearing the degree of human suffering being experienced by children, adolescents and adults. I think there were moments when we all felt overwhelmed.