Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

J. K. Rowling

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

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.

Jim Jarmusch

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

Harold Brodkey

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

I don't like to be this positive, but I genuinely think E-Trade is doing something very good here. I think they've been targeted to a degree because they've made it easy for people to open brokerage accounts, but they're not conservative. They really are innovative in security.

Her degree of difficulty has been lifted from 7.30 to 7.85, which is pretty high. But we also want to make sure her performance is stable.

Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.

John Cullum

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

The money's there to do the first six items, ... There's a high degree of likelihood we'll be able to do everything on the priority list. We'll find out six months from now.

Demand is off somewhat in the third quarter, but not nearly to the degree that it has been portrayed in the press. Europe has been a slow quarter for everybody, but I don't think there is a reason for panic that the industry is slowing down.

Jo Beverley

I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My father enjoyed the great stories of history, like Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood, and Richard the Lionheart, and he shared them with me. I went on to do a degree in history, though I found it rather dry, because it was mostly about politics rather than dashing individuals!

Sophomore year was a total 180 degrees from my freshman year. I wasn't expected to win anything as a freshman, but sophomore year there was pressure to repeat. I like that kind of pressure.

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.

It was about 50 degrees and windy. But it was OK.

Alan Greenspan

The shock of September 11, by markedly raising the degree of uncertainty about the future, has the potential to result, for a time, in pronounced disengagement from future commitments,

Richard Rolle

That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which thou shouldst be aye waxing.

They (the supplier) are getting a better order. To the degree that you don't have an inventory build-up...everybody benefits.

This is not a 'whodunit' case. It is for you to determine his degree of guilt.

This is relatively easy to exploit. It takes some degree of social engineering -- the attacker would have to draw people to a malicious Web site -- but after that, there's no further intervention required. An attacker could leverage this to write to a file on the hard drive. And once you can write to a person's machine, you have full control.

There isn't any sort of set parameters -- to any degree -- that might mitigate a team's resume.

There's a high degree of interest from the neighboring community.

They must have at least a bachelor's degree to get a foot in the door. And we make sure they understand how each question should be scored.

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.

They feel that they have been welcomed to such a degree that they would like to give it a shot

Herb Brooks

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

Frank Auerbach

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

George Soros

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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