#grad

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#any #climbs #daily #down #drops

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#big #boy #decided #degree #famous

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

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. ↗

— Ted Danson

#disasters #environmental #environmental movement #gradual #like

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. ↗

— Larry David

#degradation #mostly #sloth

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. ↗

— Richard Dawson

#asked #best #child #does #grades

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#amount #burning #course #destruction #gradual

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #gradually #old #old age #suddenly

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#asked #back #choice #first #grade

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#audience #composer #concerts #could #creative