Minor Quotes

457 Minor quotes by 390 unique authors

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of… — Howard Staunton
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. — Howard Staunton
A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have… — Frederick Lenz
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie. — Ryne Sandberg
Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public… — Lawrence Wright
I'm a minor player in my own life story. — Tony Wilson
I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction. — Greg Gutfeld
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend… — Dave Barry
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as… — Stephen Hawking
People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon… — Wendy Harmer
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of… — Thom Gunn
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled… — Carla Bley
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug… — Don Cheadle
Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I… — Andrew Gross
I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the… — Paul Thomas Anderson
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts… — Erwin Chargaff
Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not;… — Hippocrates
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of… — James S. Coleman

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