Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.