(516 quotes found)
“It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.”
Daniel S. Greenberg
“There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.”
Clive Bell
“Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Getting the degree was important and something I had put off a long, long time,”
Chris Dishman
“(Woody) "What's up Mr Peterson?" (Norm) "My Nipples, It's 30 degrees outside..."”
Norm Peterson
“I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others”
Edmund Burke
“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.”
Clive James
“These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.”
William Congreve
“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”
Bertrand Russell