Quotes of: Certain-degree Keyword

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Jason Isbell

Lorenzo: The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered.

Sleepers

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

Ori Gersht

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Robert Shea

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

Maimonides

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

Vijay Mallya

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

James E. Casey

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Evgeny Morozov

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Andre Gide

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Auliq Ice

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Alfred Marshall

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

Alexander Payne

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

Alexander Pope

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Alfred de Vigny

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Andrzej Wajda

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

Dan Rather

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

George Michael

The potential for loss of soul--to one degree or another--is the affliction of a society that as a collective has lost its sense of the holy, of a culture that values everything else above the spiritual. We live in such a spiritually impoverished cul...

Daphne Rose Kingma

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its ...

The Crossing

It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to be swayed by it, but it was no protection at all when power reach...

Fortress of Dragons