Mainly Quotes

555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors

A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States… — Alexander Agassiz
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier… — Terry Pratchett
All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which… — Kimon Nicolaides
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps… — Erland Josephson
American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most… — Susan Sontag
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the… — Charles Spurgeon
As good as we were, we didnâ€™t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.Â I used… — Bobby Bowden
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to… — John Frusciante
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise… — Henry David Thoreau
I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within… — Irina Tweedie
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was… — Mark Gatiss
The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most… — Fannie Hurst
Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead. — Grace Slick
I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable.Â I always felt that… — Linus Torvalds
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. — Nawal El Saadawi
I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking. — Toby Stephens
The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger… — Gary North
The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus. — H. L. Mencken
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. — H. L. Mencken

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