Advanced Degrees Quotes

#1. Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

Megan McCafferty

#2. I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [ ... ] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

Steven Chu

#3. The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

Roger Smith

#4. Major export is people who are funny and smart, who have advanced degrees, who read on public transportation.

Jennifer DuBois

#5. I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true love is likely a hopeless proposition. Now is the time when I need to believe in fairy tales.

Roxane Gay

#6. It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

Elinor Lipman

#7. The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings ... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.

Albert Mackey

#8. Mom, Dad, Baby, they were three advanced people with three advanced degrees in psychology - they thought more before nine A.M. than most people thought all month.

Gillian Flynn

#9. Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

Jennifer Granholm

#10. [T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free..

Siva Vaidhyanathan

#11. In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#12. I talked to lots of people who are vaccine-hesitant, and I actually was one myself until I got further into this project, and most of them actually are in my demographic: so well-educated people with advanced degrees who are upper middle-class and have read quite a bit on the subject.

Eula Biss

#13. Providing for your family's immediate needs while simultaneously moving toward your goals forces you to work hard and trust God - two vital components of every good man. If

David Benham

#14. Happiness is there when you love everyone, serve in every occasion, and judge no one.

Debasish Mridha

#15. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

Jon McGregor

#17. By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man
man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

Orson Scott Card

#19. If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

Hans Jonas

#20. When Mom picked me up a little after nine, I expected her to rave about my make-over. Instead, I got a lecture about how girls my age were trying to grow up too quickly and make-up should enhance one's natural beauty. Crushed, I remained silent the entire way home.

Brenda Pandos

#21. The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Real achievement
the true measure of how far we have advanced in life
is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

Guy Finley

#23. Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#24. I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

Alison Goldfrapp

#25. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

Anna Paquin

#26. I was unhindered by internal conflict - a state of being that I have come to see as fundamental to the learning process.

Josh Waitzkin