Quotes About Minor

the name for a certain kind of fiscal decapitation is called taking a haircut, which clarifies just how minor and even trivial are most of the financial limitations on wealth that get considered in the neoliberal hegemony.

We were a minor trend waiting to happen. In 1980 when we were approached by several tables about signing, we said, 'Well, money isn't that important, but we want our artistic control.' And their replay was, 'Of course you can have artistic control, as long as you change your name.' So much for artistic control!

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energy as one pushes them through their lives.

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

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

most of the time it's the small things that count

Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!

I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems.

La neurosis es un mal menor: no en relación con la salud sino en relación con ese imposible del que hablaba Bataille (La neurosis es la miedosa aprehensión de un fondo imposible, etc.); pero ese mal menor es el único que permite escribir (y leer).

così, senza saperlo, ereditiamo l'incapacità verso la tragedia, e la predestinazione alla forma minore del dramma.

The Major Arcana documents big, dramatic life events; while the Minor Arcana focuses on day-to-day life. So, loosely translated, you can think of them as the big mysteries and the little mysteries of life.

This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. . . . It has the words "DON'T PANIC" inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.

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

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

I had two concussions that were of major concern, what I would term very significant. As far as head injury goes, I would say all of the others were pretty minor and inconsequential.

We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.

As for the horde of minor gods who respectively watched over every stage of life and work, 'we believe that the angels carry out their duties,' said Tertullian (An., 37, 1).

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.