#degree

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. ↗

— Simone Weil

#baseness #because #degree #grandeur #laws

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#any #authors #bags #corner #degrees

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #choice #degrees #golf #great

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

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#culture #degree #developed #disney #empire

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

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#allies #canada #degree #events #influence

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