Quotes of: Certain-degree Keyword

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of ne...

Mark Z. Danielewski

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it ...

Waiting and Dating

So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds of people who like certain kinds of songs and they like - some people want to dance when you come out, some people just want to be in...

Nickolas Ashford

At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more terrible with every word you write. This is normal. You just have to keep going, push your way through, and have faith that, thro...

Greg van Eekhout

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. Whe...

Mike McCarthy

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can...

Carrie-Anne Moss

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love someth...

Tinashe

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own...

Joel Coen

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lips...

E. F. Benson

You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the support...

David Dunn

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain s...

Sharon Salzberg

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're l...

Lorrie Moore

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Degrees: Thought Capsules

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

The General's Daughter

I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.

Alex Kingston

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Literary Remains, Vol. 1

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Les Diaboliques

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

The Love Mindset

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness." ( )

Works of Samuel Johnson