Minor Quotes
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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.
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More Minor Quotes
Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is official, riven, driven, constant, rampant and increasing each year since the events of 1915 to 1922. It is state-funded, with special departments and units in overseas missions whose sole purpose is to dilute, counter, minimise, trivialise and relativise every reference to the events which encompassed a genocide of Armenians, Pontian Greeks and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor.
— Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Kevin White, Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society, p.82
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or Minor influences.
pierre bourdieu— Bourdieu (2001), "The Intellectual Class Struggle," New York Times, Jan. 6, 2001
The hallmark of the Minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
robert hughes— "Alex Katz" (1986)
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of Minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
Alain de Botton— The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009, pg. 127)
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
margot fonteyn— p. 9 (Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography? (1975))
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.
saki— "Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped"
In the spacious highways of books major or Minor, each poet is allowed the stride that will get him where he wants to go if,God help him, he can hit that stride and keep it.
Carl Sandburg— Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and Minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
béla bartók— "The Folk Songs of Hungary" in Pro Musica VII (October 1928)
As our faces and bodies drew nearer, gravity was not helping us at all. It took Minor struggle to come together, and we had to hold on in an effort to keep our lips aligned.
vanna bonta— p. 29 (Zero Gravity interview (2006))
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous Minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
a. e. housman— John Berryman, The Paris Review, Winter 1972
We're not playing some Minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.
l. ron hubbard— "Keeping Scientology Working" (7 February 1965)
Among Minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.
william stanley jevons— Preface To The Second Edition, p. 8
"Ilsa" has been such a Minor part of my career, that I find it amusing that some persons only know me for that association.
dyanne thorne— Fabian Paffendorf (November, 2003). Dyanne Thorne Interview. wicked-vision.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-30.
— (also available in German)
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a Minor royalty.
herbert beerbohm tree— "The Importance of Humour in Tragedy: Presidential Address Delivered at the Birmingham Midland Institute, 1915", Nothing Matters, and Other Stories (1917) p. 207.
Warlimont became renowned, with Keitel and Jodl, as one of the German officers most loyal to Hitler and was accordingly sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment in 1949 as a Minor war criminal...
walter warlimont— Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War
When I wrote about Hank Williams 'A hundred floors above me in the tower of song', it's not some kind of inverse modesty. I know where Hank Williams stands in the history of popular song. Your Cheatin' Heart, songs like that, are sublime, in his own tradition, and I feel myself a very Minor writer.
hank williams— Leonard Cohen, Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen's head? The Guardian (2006-06-20)
Even a Minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
gaston bachelard— The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon, ch. 1
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.
stephen hawking— Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a Minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
abbie hoffman— "Chicago", on the spoken word album Wake Up America! (1970)
Whether we take these characters then, or such Minor ones as those which are derivable from the proportional length of the spines in the cervical vertebrae, and the like, there is no doubt whatsoever as to the marked difference between Man and the Gorilla; but there is as little, that equally marked differences, of the very same order, obtain between the Gorilla and the lower apes.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.2, p.92
So far from the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, and the hippocampus Minor, being structures peculiar to and characteristic of man, as they have been over and over again asserted to be, even after the publication of the clearest demonstration of the reverse, it is precisely these structures which are the most marked cerebral characters common to man with the apes. They are among the most distinctly Simian peculiarities which the human organism exhibits.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.2, p.119
In most parts of our country men work, not for themselves, not as partners in the old way in which they used to work, but generally as employees, in a higher or lower grade, of great corporations. There was a time when corporations played a very Minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
— Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 5.
Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim, Si pede major erit subvertet; si Minor, uret.
— If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
— Horace, Epistles, I. 10. 42.
The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd, And all the Minor spots of rock and verdure, The abodes of happy millions, were no more.
james montgomery— James Montgomery, The Pelican Island (1827), Canto VI, line 74.
Although the martial arts are a Minor path , we can by means of the lesser glimpse the greater.
— Chen Xin (1849-1929) an important Chen family scholar, in his 1919 work Tai Chi Chuan Illustrated - quoted in Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty (1996)
Patience, n. A Minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce— Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary.
There are certain figures in the arts who, although Minor in accomplishment and equivocal in their aesthetic influence, are so completely representative of the spirit of their age....
— Hilton Kramer, in Triumph of Modernism: The Art World, 1987-2005, p.168
Oh, Mercy now I understand : The secret behind your actions , the thread that binds all these seemingly random events. … There's no great or small! No question of size or importance! Each act of compassion however Minor it may appear to our blind eyes affects all Creation; shakes it to its roots!
— J. M. DeMatteis, in Mercy (1993)
