Quotes by Degrees The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that. Harmony Korine degreesmusiciantwo The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism. Harold H. Bloomfield degreescriticismlove-is 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. Harold Brodkey homosexualitydegreesabstinence It's entirely in your power to regulate the degree to which you peel back the layers of your personality when you disclose yourself to someone. You can keep that person on the surface, or you can allow her to penetrate, by degrees or directly, to the core. Harriet B. Braiker layersdegreespersonality With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. H. G. Wells degreeswifewine No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. Harold Rosenberg degreescriticsdetermination Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit. Harriet Martineau leisuredegreesmen Goodness means the highest degree of popularity. Heinrich Mann popularitydegreesmean It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower. Harry S. Truman presidentialdegreessides I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess. Heinrich Himmler degreesstillskind There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life. Henri Bergson psychicsdegreesdifferent Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels. Henry Blodget degreesqualityessence Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. Henry James Sumner Maine degreeslawpeople The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. Henry James Sumner Maine degreesdifferentnames The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience. Henry James degreesmindart The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century. Henry R. Luce vigordegreesworld A short story is simplification to the highest degree Henry Seidel Canby short-storydegreesstories The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing Henry Seidel Canby superficial-thingsdegreesinteresting Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke apathydegreesnext All art is an abstraction to some degree. Henry Moore art-isdegreesart«2223242526272829303132»
