People of humor are always in some degree people of geniusQuote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about humor, genius, people
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.Quote by Irving Babbitt
I've always been surprised at the degree of success of The Mirror and the Lamp and duration of esteem for it. I had no reason to expect in 1953 that it would appeal to more than a specialized group interested in literary criticism.Quote by M. H. Abrams about criticism, literary critic, reason
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.Quote by Aristotel about rightness, purpose, power, people, time
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about hunger, weakness, heads, time, man
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.Quote by Michael Chabon about writers, thinking
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.Quote by William Falconer
The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason
The labour is indeed constant, but not in general so violent as either to exhaust the strength by over-straining, or to excite any weakening degree of discharge by perspiration.Quote by William Falconer
Darmstadt was in ruins. It really disturbed me to see a country like that, demolished to such a degree. Terrifying.Quote by Luc Ferrari about country
When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.Quote by Ralph Fiennes about shame, poverty, wealth
This thing called revolutionary propaganda and activity is something of an art in itself. It has been developed to a high degree in Europe where revolutionary groups have been active for half a century and where Communist revolutionary groups have...Quote by John Thomas Flynn about activity, past, art, magic, things
When John Kennedy was running for president he came to my neighborhood. It was the hottest day in a century, it was like 9,000 degrees. People came from all over Manhattan to my neighborhood to see this guy who talked about my country, and my part...Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about country, things, day, people
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.Quote by Samuel Johnson about faith, man
The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about technology
A part dropped from the workbench will roll to a degree of un-reachability proportional to its importance.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers
In any accident, the degree of injury suffered by a patient is inversely proportional to the amount and volume of agonized screaming produced by that patient.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.Quote by Thomas Paine about consequences, defeat, enemies