Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks -… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it… — Johann Joachim Winckelmann Copy Share Image
I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus… — Skandar Keynes Copy Share Image
The stock market crashed in October 1929. But that was not the cause of what caused the Great Depression. It was, in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney… — Raymond Sokolov Copy Share Image
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I… — Jim Bowden Copy Share Image
God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability.… — Matt Diaz Copy Share Image
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in… — Umar Copy Share Image
The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
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![“I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on…” quote by Skandar Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3da/skandar-keynes-53983_bus_i-kind-of-feel-that-once-we-re-back-in-l_786024.jpg)
![“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.” quote by Raymond Sokolov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b62/raymond-sokolov-44829_bars_reservations-and-cloth-napkins-are-reall_1481441.jpg)
![“Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of this kind of pot. You would perhaps see a case with 20 different examples. So you realize that these pots could be repeated again and again, and each time there would…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/469/warren-mackenzie-4654_again-and-again_other-thing-about-field-museum-of-natura_494272.jpg)
![“He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/pico-iyer-1252_common_he-the-dalai-lama-has-made-it-his-missio_1718353.jpg)
![“I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.” quote by Umar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/354/umar-7547_cattle_i-am-surprised-at-three-things-1-a-man-r_1273782.jpg)
