Quotes about Minor

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs. Votes: 4

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time. Votes: 4

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it. Votes: 4

Minor artists borrow, great ones steal. Votes: 3

Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam. Votes: 3

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. Votes: 3

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? Votes: 3

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time Votes: 3

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. Votes: 3

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. Votes: 3

WHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?Ah. I see we are now into the second movement of the Nakamura Suite in G-Minor! Votes: 3

Professor Milligan will now play his tree! The composition is in A Minor, the tree is in A garden. Votes: 3

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie. Votes: 3

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction. Votes: 3

Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. Votes: 3

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 and drizzle. Votes: 3

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions. Votes: 3

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone. Votes: 3

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good. Votes: 3

Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind. Votes: 3

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun. Votes: 3

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes. Votes: 3

I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game. Votes: 3

You rang, Mino- well, you're not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon. (Jericho) Mister Master it is. What can I do for you? (Asmodeus) Votes: 3

I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began. Votes: 3

In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe. Votes: 3

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be. Votes: 3

I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy. Votes: 3

I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player. Votes: 3

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window. Votes: 3

Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy. Votes: 3

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate. Votes: 3

Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then. Votes: 3

Asmodeus! You don't see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of us? No? Good. I'm leaving now unless Minor Master has another preferably nonpainful task for me. (Asmodeus) You're dismissed. (Jericho) Cool beaners. (Asmodeus) Votes: 3

We are minor in everything but our passions. Votes: 2

I'm a minor player in my own life story. Votes: 2

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. Votes: 2

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. Votes: 2

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. Votes: 2

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself. Votes: 2

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. Votes: 2

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem. Votes: 2

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. Votes: 2

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. Votes: 2

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Votes: 2

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Votes: 2

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering. Votes: 2

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. Votes: 2

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. Votes: 2

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? Votes: 2

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. Votes: 2

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? Votes: 2

I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years. Votes: 2

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease. Votes: 2

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. Votes: 2

The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers. Votes: 2

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel. Votes: 2

Never do your enemy a minor injury. Votes: 0

Have never been a minor league fan. Votes: 0

A clever man commits no minor blunders. Votes: 0

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting. Votes: 0

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle. Votes: 0

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life. Votes: 0

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor. Votes: 0

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art. Votes: 0

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs. Votes: 0

I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother (Joaquin). Votes: 0

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. Votes: 0

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift. Votes: 0

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old, Votes: 0

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. Votes: 0

It's a good idea not to major in minor things. Votes: 0

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun. Votes: 0

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else Votes: 0

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees. Votes: 0

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. Votes: 0

Not sure there is such a thing as a minor miracle. Votes: 0

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Votes: 0

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details. Votes: 0

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity Votes: 0

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. Votes: 0

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. Votes: 0

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain. Votes: 0

Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization. Votes: 0

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels. Votes: 0

I'll graduate high school with a major in Cynicism & a minor in Irritation." Votes: 0

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence. Votes: 0

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans. Votes: 0

I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me. Votes: 0

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point. Votes: 0

Okay, I'll strip. I'll tap dance. I'll sing 'La Cucaracha' in C minor. Votes: 0

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors. Votes: 0

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way. Votes: 0

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness. Votes: 0

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. Votes: 0

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. Votes: 0

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords. Votes: 0

The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues. Votes: 0

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. Votes: 0

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery. Votes: 0

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys. Votes: 0

Count the cost first. Don't pay too big a price for pursuing minor values. Votes: 0

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. Votes: 0

As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues. Votes: 0

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional. Votes: 0

It's commonplace to nitpick on minor faults. But it's exceptional to correct them through enlargement. Votes: 0

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps. Votes: 0

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. Votes: 0

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy. Votes: 0

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off. Votes: 0

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. Votes: 0

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin. Votes: 0

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes -Miles "Pudge Votes: 0

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. Votes: 0

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration. Votes: 0

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. Votes: 0

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain. Votes: 0

The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine. Votes: 0

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major Votes: 0

I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right. Votes: 0

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am. Votes: 0

Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music. Votes: 0

A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances. Votes: 0

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction. Votes: 0

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. Votes: 0

Id like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. Votes: 0

I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love. Votes: 0

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? Votes: 0

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. Votes: 0

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously. Votes: 0

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' Votes: 0

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases. Votes: 0

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon... Votes: 0

The high cost of living is a minor problem when compared to the cost of high living. Votes: 0

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. Votes: 0

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself. Votes: 0

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. Votes: 0

Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry. Votes: 0

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment. Votes: 0

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable. Votes: 0

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. Votes: 0

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts. Votes: 0

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? Votes: 0

And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out. Votes: 0

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone. Votes: 0

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem. Votes: 0

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively. Votes: 0

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves. Votes: 0

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. Votes: 0

When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn Votes: 0

Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role. Votes: 0

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. Votes: 0

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block. Votes: 0

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues. Votes: 0

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you. Votes: 0

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. Votes: 0

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people. Votes: 0

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things. Votes: 0

Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point. Votes: 0

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. Votes: 0

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference. Votes: 0

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. Votes: 0

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing. Votes: 0

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me. Votes: 0

I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues. Votes: 0

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. Votes: 0

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. Votes: 0

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. Votes: 0

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster. Votes: 0

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. Votes: 0

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions? Votes: 0

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes. Votes: 0

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. Votes: 0

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.' Votes: 0

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise. Votes: 0

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. Votes: 0

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. Votes: 0

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. Votes: 0

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues. Votes: 0

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. Votes: 0

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. Votes: 0

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. Votes: 0

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details. Votes: 0

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. Votes: 0

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. Votes: 0

I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself. Votes: 0

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else. Votes: 0

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. Votes: 0

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. Votes: 0

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Votes: 0

Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star. Votes: 0

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut. Votes: 0

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge. Votes: 0

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. Votes: 0

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things. Votes: 0

In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor. Votes: 0

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong. Votes: 0

No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story. Votes: 0

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details? Votes: 0

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties. Votes: 0

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters. Votes: 0

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion. Votes: 0

I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day. Votes: 0

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. Votes: 0

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color. Votes: 0

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics. Votes: 0

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. Votes: 0

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be. Votes: 0

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see Votes: 0

Your simple words just don't move me... You're minor, we major. You all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player. Votes: 0

Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting. Votes: 0

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing. Votes: 0

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. Votes: 0

When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet. Votes: 0

I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls. Votes: 0

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor. Votes: 0

Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head! Votes: 0

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year. Votes: 0

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about. Votes: 0

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married. Votes: 0

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases. Votes: 0

I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2. Votes: 0

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy! Votes: 0

After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart. Votes: 0

It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here. Votes: 0

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. Votes: 0

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. Votes: 0

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction. Votes: 0

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons. Votes: 0

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing. Votes: 0

I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work. Votes: 0

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality. Votes: 0

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 beefs. Votes: 0

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action. Votes: 0

The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war. Votes: 0

Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves. Votes: 0

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it. Votes: 0

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man. Votes: 0

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone. Votes: 0

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart. Votes: 0

That's what I try to do, my wife and I, we try to, not shelter them [kids], but still not contribute to the delinquency of a minor. Votes: 0

I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S Votes: 0

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role. Votes: 0

Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy Votes: 0

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here. Votes: 0

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 their overall activity. Votes: 0

The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song. Votes: 0

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center. Votes: 0

"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability. Votes: 0

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency. Votes: 0

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 new minor catastrophe. Votes: 0

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death. Votes: 0

If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak. Votes: 0

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 write a lot. Votes: 0

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously. Votes: 0

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it. Votes: 0

You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys. Votes: 0

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor. Votes: 0

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations. Votes: 0

Why should it be mandatory for people to give interviews. I request state governments to remove the process of interviews for minor jobs to end corruption in getting jobs. Votes: 0

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. Votes: 0

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball. Votes: 0

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it. Votes: 0

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state. Votes: 0

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's. Votes: 0

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 Banner in a minor key. Votes: 0

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. Votes: 0

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. Votes: 0

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them. Votes: 0

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed. Votes: 0

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis. Votes: 0

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place. Votes: 0

Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor. Votes: 0

When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details. Votes: 0

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer. Votes: 0

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. Votes: 0

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me. Votes: 0

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role. Votes: 0

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot... Votes: 0

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing. Votes: 0

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. Votes: 0

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things. Votes: 0

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? Votes: 0

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. Votes: 0

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 required to know His own principle. Votes: 0

Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor. Votes: 0

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids. Votes: 0

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe. Votes: 0

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool. Votes: 0

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine Votes: 0

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. Votes: 0

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles. Votes: 0

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington. Votes: 0

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence. Votes: 0

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces. Votes: 0

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat. Votes: 0

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion. Votes: 0

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering. Votes: 0

There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later. Votes: 0

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 whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. Votes: 0

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity. Votes: 0

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 have relegated him to a minor career. Votes: 0

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 a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. Votes: 0

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities. Votes: 0

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points. Votes: 0

I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it. Votes: 0

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill. Votes: 0

American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings. Votes: 0

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art. Votes: 0

Wes Clark put forward a middle class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle class families, none without minor children at home, .. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class. Votes: 0

As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don't. Votes: 0

In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road. Votes: 0

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time. Votes: 0

As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don't. Votes: 0

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object. Votes: 0

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens. Votes: 0

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art. Votes: 0

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. Votes: 0

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. Votes: 0

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you. Votes: 0

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms. Votes: 0

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?" Votes: 0

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on. Votes: 0

Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to." Votes: 0

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it. Votes: 0

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 attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day. Votes: 0

When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses. Votes: 0

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world. Votes: 0

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it. Votes: 0

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor. Votes: 0

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence. Votes: 0

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else. Votes: 0

For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what Christ is doing than on what the antichrist is doing. Votes: 0

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. Votes: 0

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance. Votes: 0

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. Votes: 0