Top 1200 Minor Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

It was fun shooting for Vithagan.' It's a bubbly character. I perform minor stunts too.

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

I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

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

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.

Once you leave the minor leagues, you want to not come back. But it's the path that I'm on, the journey that I'm on.

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

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

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

I guess I like minor chords better than major ones, in general.

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

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

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

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

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

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

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.

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

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

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

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

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

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

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

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

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

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