The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or Minor influences.
pierre bourdieuMost 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 BottonMinor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
margot fonteynWhenever 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.
sakiMinor in parvis Fortuna furit, Leviusque ferit leviora deus.
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 bartókWe'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 hubbardThe Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many Minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.
christopher isherwoodAmong 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"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 thornePeople are too apt to treat God as if he were a Minor royalty.
herbert beerbohm treeWhen 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 williamsEconomy 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.
william ewart gladstoneIn 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 hoffmanWhether 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 huxleyFor a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only Minor ones.
aleksandr solzhenitsynIn 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.
Cui non conveniet sua res, ut calceus olim, Si pede major erit subvertet; si Minor, uret.
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 montgomeryIt's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very Minor role.
Patience, n. A Minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Gwinett BierceThere 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....