Minors Quotes - Page 8

• But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Moving, Thinking

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• You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

  Avi Arad

  Roles, Wow, Screen Time

  "Avi Arad & Matt Tolmach interview: Spider-Man, Hulk". Interview with Simon Brew, www.denofgeek.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.

  Robinson Cano

  Believe, League, Proud

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• Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.

  Gaby Sanchez

  Stars, Nice, League

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• It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Details Of Life, Forgotten

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy In America”, p.326, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Depressing, Fun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They [NYPD] tell you how you can act and what you can do your whole entire life. But they always stayed out of it. I did a little here and there for the police department as far as a crime scene that might have occult overtones - they would call me and I'd look into it. But it was usually minor little things.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Police, Here And There, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

  Roald Dahl

  Doubt, Mind, Tragedy

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• The high cost of living is a minor problem when compared to the cost of high living.

  Mardy Grothe

  Cost Of Living, Cost, Problem

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• I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.

  Mark Teixeira

  College, Years, League

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• As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

  Mike Lowell

  League, Rounds, Picks

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• I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day.

  Matt Holliday

  Attitude, League, Get Better

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• When you're getting $2,000 a month in the minors, it's hard not to eat Taco Bell every day.

  Marcus Giles

  Taco Bell, Bells, Months

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• In some ways, I think "Pulp Fiction" hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to "Pulp Fiction".

  Roger Avary

  Hurt, Thinking, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Nature, Learning

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• Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Girlfriend, Lying, Moving

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• Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Character, Class

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

  James Thurber

  Old School, Light, Car

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.150, Library of America

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• Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Pain, Powerful, Bills

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.

  Wallace Stegner

  Art, Character, Thinking

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn't that an idea of only minor importance? Doesn't every human being, no matter which era he lives in, always have to reckon with being accountable to God at any moment? Can I know whether I'll be alive tomorrow morning? A bomb could destroy all of us tonight. And then my guilt would not be one bit less than if I perished together with the arth and the stars.

  Sophie Scholl

  Morning, Stars, Thinking

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• The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Play, Ideas, Quality

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Thinking, Details Of Life

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.314, Penguin

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• Asmodeus! You don’t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of us? No? Good. I’m leaving now unless Minor Master has another preferably nonpainful task for me. (Asmodeus) You're dismissed. (Jericho) Cool beaners. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Leaving, Tasks

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• It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

  John Green

  Pudge, Miles, Worth It

  "Looking For Alaska". Book by John Green, 2015.

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