Top 901 Minor Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

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

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

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.

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

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

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

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

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

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

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

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

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

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

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

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