#degree

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#about #arts #because #business #degrees

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. ↗

— Gilbert White

#day #deep #degrees #doors #fourteen

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now. ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#difficulty #lot #men #more #now

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#educated #great #live #manners #men

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#certificate #degree #diving #does #evenings

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#articulate #background #believe #certain #degree

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#back #because #become #could #degree

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#done #had #i #lesser #sitcom

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#degree #length #success #time

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#expect #finland #first #first thing #getting