Top 335 Minimal Quotes & Sayings

The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.

I like very minimal stuff. I'm a tomboy at heart - and in body!

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

I like to have bright, clean skin so that I can wear minimal makeup.

I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.

No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There is no foreign domination; there is minimal foreign interference. The Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union no longer exists. The United States is showing minimal and diminishing interest in the Muslim world. They now have to confront their own problems. The old excuses are gone. The old justifications are gone and therefore the anger of people is turning increasingly against their own rulers.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

I do a little bit of minimal brow wrangling myself. I get the strays out of the way.

The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

Going into a contest, I do not eat solid food and take in minimal calories for days, so I am hungry.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.

When I'm not working, I wear minimal make-up. I try to keep my skin clean and easy.

As the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades.

Our needs are minimal.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

I think barefaced, minimal makeup happens mostly on editorial shoots. And I've taken a swing at minimal makeup here and there, but I think a lot of what drag celebrates is the opposite of that. I think the inauthenticity and the hyperfemininity is part of why it's so celebrated.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.

I was really into what is called "minimal synth" - music made strictly on analog synths, and also cold wave, basically a more synth-based version of European post-punk, at that point. So, I decided my own show Minimal Wave was a good way to combine the minimal electronics aspect with the "wave," where guitars come into play.

I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.

My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.

I'm pretty minimal when it comes to my beauty routine and always have been.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

A slick ponytail is a great way to add a modern, minimal look to your outfit.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

There's no way my body can be fixed, but what we can hope to do is keep all the deteriorative processes as minimal as possible.

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.

I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.

I'm not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

Through my years of traveling, I've become a pretty incredible packer and great at staying minimal.

The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal - respect, support when needed, kindness, love.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

The process of overbooking is a complicated one. It's actually minimal. We, on certain flights, overbook by one or two people.

Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

I love simple dresses and use only minimal make up.

Online vintage shopping is the best way to find something really unique with minimal effort.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

Minimal art went nowhere.

If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.