I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.
If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.
Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
. . . being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?
Composing demands a degree of isolation.
I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.
media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.