#degrees

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#men #men and women #must #pretend #valuable

I’m fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for a threesome, I’m most likely to cut off your dick and feed it to my neighbor’s Chihuahua. ↗

— Taylor V. Donovan

#sdos-the-by-degrees-series #experience

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#another #cannot #courses #degrees #difference

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#degrees #discovered #i #old #play

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

— David Alan Grier

#done #had #i #lesser #sitcom

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#chrysalis #degrees #eyes #fact #fiction

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing. ↗

— John Cusack

#comparison #degrees #else #how #judge

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. ↗

— Neil Simon

#comedy #degrees #fact #generally #get

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ↗

— John Dryden

#degrees #gather #habits #ill #make