Famous quotes containing the words degree and/or offered:
“There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, one’s hopes or one’s fears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.”
—Tommy Steele (b. 1936)