When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years.

There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.

Equity is rarely given; it is claimed and the battle must be ceaseless for opportunity is never a last actuality, however a keeping developing procedure to ever more elevated degrees of human, social, monetary, political and strict relationship.

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward you know.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought 'Well if acting doesn't work for him he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately the acting worked out.

My younger sister had kids before I did and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate face the fact squarely and get out.

I was if you like a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason if I have any success in that milieu so to speak is because I spent a lot of years directing I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others you will build up yourself.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

Atheism shows strength of mind but only to a certain degree.