This collection holds 325 minor quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Marian Mcpartland, Derek Walcott and Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I like minor tunes.

Minor writers think style is all.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

Movies require a minor miracle to get made.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

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

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

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

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

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

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

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

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

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

It isn't something I'm out there looking to do - take minor penalties.

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

We are not a minor power in the Middle East; we are a significant player.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

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

I played right field in Minor Leagues a lot before I started playing centerfield.

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

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

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

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

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

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

Even in the Minor Leagues, I thought you have to go out and earn a spot. Nothing is ever given to you.

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. If anything I'm a minor celebrity or a TV star or whatever.

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

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