Minors Quotes - Page 8

• The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

  John A. Keel

  Age, Variation, Trojan Horse

  John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

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• Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

  Al Alvarez

  Depression, Disappointment, Relaxation

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• The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

  John A. Keel

  Liars, Artist, Law

  John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

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• Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of a doubt that when exhibited overseas they have a detrimental effect of immigration . . . Everything that can be done should be done, to encourage the circulation of screen pictures that demonstrate that snow scenes and dog-trains are but a minor phase in Canadian life.

  Charles Paul

  Dog, Snow, Doubt

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• The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

  Victor LaValle

  Writing, Character, Voice

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• I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.

  Lucy Grealy

  Pain, Cancer, Years

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• I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

  Richard Linklater

  Confused, Thinking, Quitting

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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

  David Archuleta

  Who I Am, Problem, Influence

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• I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Mother, Father, Years

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• Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly lasting well into 2015 or even 2016. The worst economic trends due to demographics will hit between 2014 and 2019. The U.S. economy is likely to suffer a minor or major crash by early 2015 and another between late 2017 and late 2019 or early 2020 at the latest.

  Marc Faber

  Long, Suffering, Trends

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• I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother [Joaquin].

  River Phoenix

  Brother, Stupid, Talent

  Mademoiselle Magazine, 1993.

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• When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.

  Denholm Elliott

  Two, Roles, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

  Mark Emmert

  Sports, Successful, College

  "NCAA leader Mark Emmert decries 'pay for play' as a threat to core of college sports", www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2014.

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• Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None objected, however, to wearing the hammer and sickle on a T-shirt or a hat. It was a minor observation, but sometimes, it is through just such minor observations that a cultural mood is best observed. For here, the lesson could not have been clearer: while the symbol of one mass murder fills us with horror, the symbol of another mass murder makes us laugh.

  Anne Applebaum

  People, Laughing, Would Be

  Anne Applebaum (2007). “Gulag: A History”, p.15, Anchor

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• 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.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Brother, Character, Interesting

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

  Angela Carter

  Sexy, Fashion, Women

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Women, Flower

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• All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Variation, Theme

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Dog, Father, War

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• Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

  Edward Abbey

  Distance, Kids, Work Out

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

  Immanuel Kant

  Immature, Immaturity, Roles

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively.

  Bruce Willis

  Prayer, Moving, Caring

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

  Sun Bin

  War, Mean, Loss

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