For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

“What is the purpose of intelligence if it is not to serve others?”

— Muriel Barbery

“Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

— Tony Wilson

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

— Cornel West

I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me.

— Piri Thomas

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

— Richard Selzer

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank…

— Cynthia Ozick

Have never been a minor league fan.

— W. P. Kinsella

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

— Leonard Cohen

The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the…

— Pierre Bourdieu

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

— Nate Silver

Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest,…

— Gretchen Rubin

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

— Jeff Perry