Minor Quotes

457 Minor quotes by 390 unique authors

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts… — Patrick MacGill
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. — Tom DeMarco
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress… — Charles Sanders Peirce
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was… — John McGahern
This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some… — Jeri Ryan
We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our… — Robert Grudin
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the… — Robert Grudin
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise. — George Takei
I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. — Helmut Jahn
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… — Unknown Author
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to… — Peter Bart
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to… — Lee Konitz
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. — Kevin J. Anderson
I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old, — Tony Wilson
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. — Harry Houdini
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor -… — Unknown Author
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He… — Giacomo Casanova
Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details. — John Wooden
People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening.… — Hideo Kojima
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts. — Clarence Stein
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to… — Joseph Addison
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might… — Pal Benko
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in… — Cyril Burt

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