Quotes by Degrees I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertaken at ANU, I started a BFA in Sydney which I completed at VCA in Melbourne. Patricia Piccinini degreesartschool I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work, I'd say. And being in a career that is predicated on a degree of self-absorption, that is a tricky thing to negotiate sometimes. Patrick Fabian degreescareersself I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not. Patricia Briggs degreesusedyears JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree. Oscar Wilde degreespleasuregentleman With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight. Patrick Rothfuss degreesideasmoving He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore. Paul Auster shrinkingdegreeswater Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. Paul Auster difficultydegreeswritten The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. Paul de Man agentsdegreeswriting After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967. Paul Nurse degreesinterviewsweakness I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting. Paul S. Kemp implieddegreesworld It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do. Paul Smith degreesassociationanimal The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome. Paul Simon preferencescreensdegrees [American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself. Paul Tillich degreespoliticalopposites The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree. The evidence that you believed a long time ago is that you're still believing now and ever more believing in greater and greater degrees. Paul Washer long-agodegreesbelieve We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing. Paul Wolfowitz degreesstepsworld I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. Paula Poundstone degreesnumbersyears Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer one. It is wrong to assume that everything ends with death; what ends is only the temporary conditions in which people have lived on earth. Peter Deunov degreesearthpeople The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence. Peter James degreespoliceemotional If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility. Peter L. Berger socialist-economypossibilitydegrees To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly? Peter Morgan historiandegreesnovelists«4748495051525354555657»
