#degree

I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here. ↗

— Tommy Flanagan

#back #bad #bad news #bit #day

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary #culture #degree #extension #geographical

I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#back to school #because #decided #degree #forever

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#buildings #close #contain #degree #dreams

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ↗

— Jane Austen

#allow #anything #been #books #degree

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#laziness #low #manner #person #repose

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. ↗

— Hal David

#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#aspect #assumed #attraction #degree #doctor

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#being #better #coming #degree #enduring

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#around #black #college #college degree #degree