I do have a degree in history.

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school…

— Al Jourgensen

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

— Emma Anderson

“I have a degree in history, which is one of the reasons I’m an auto mechanic.”

— Patricia Briggs

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the…

— Charles Stross

My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because...…

— Michael Moritz

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

— William Shenstone

One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50…

— Don Sherwood

Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate…

— Evan Williams

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree…

— Junot Diaz

When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree.

— Doug Baldwin

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just…

— Gerard Butler

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's…

— Donald Judd

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career…

— John McDonnell

“If I could blush, I'd be a third degree sunburn.”

— S.G. Browne