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Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome. — Bill Nye

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. ... A gnawing burns inside ... to make something of myself worth giving. — Minor White

Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity. — Joe Madureira

Never do your enemy a minor injury. — Niccolo Machiavelli

U201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould

He has a minor in explosives and the slightly bitter, misanthropic personality of someone who shouldn't. — Mary Roach

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. — Richard Dawkins

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death. — David Nicholls

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major — Gore Vidal

In a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency. — Frances Moore Lappe

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. — William J. Brennan

Catarina was the blue-tinted voice of reason and minor rebellion in the hallowed halls of the Academy. — Cassandra Clare

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor. — Crystal Reed

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

To say I had some pent-up anger would be like saying Britney Spears had minor impulse-control issues. — Molly Harper

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu

The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor. — Raheel Farooq

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details. — Cobi Jones

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action. — Mark Zuckerberg

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room. — Minor White

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

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. — Minor White

A minor point at such a moment. — Margaret Mitchell

She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses. — Dorothy L. Sayers

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery. — Richard Asher

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. — Helmut Jahn

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction. — Elisabeth Elliot

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. — Rumi

Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role. — Diane Ladd

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance. — Lynn Coady

Her gorgeousness was a matter of minor adjustments to a pattern, so that a breathtaking harmony resulted. — J.K. Rowling

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key. — Boris Vian

In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor. — Laura Bush

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic. — Jose Gonzalez

In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. — Gore Vidal

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

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life. — Cassandra Clare

It was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, — John Green

From private flood. / Drama of each season / plots doom from above, / yet all allergic reason / moves to our minor love — Sylvia Plath

Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry. — Kyle Minor

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin. — Chris Thile

Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power. — Annie Proulx

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

Live every single day doing something relevant; single days sum up to make great ages! — Israelmore Ayivor

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity — Tom Peters

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams. — Minor White

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

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

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

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

the entire population of the world - with one minor exception - is composed of others. — John C. Maxwell

Thought for the Day: I have to make the choice every day to interrupt my fleshly tendencies of yelling and getting angry over minor things. — Lysa TerKeurst

The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead. — Bill Knott

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you. — Bill Walton

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle. — Ryan Reynolds

No one whines like a vampire forced to deal with some minor unpleasantness. — Tori Centanni

If we get used to putting up with minor hurts, we will gradually develop tolerance for greater pain. — Dalai Lama XIV

He wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details? — J.D. Robb

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it. — Elizabeth Bear

If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — G.K. Chesterton

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen. — Minor White

Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace? — Maya Angelou

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small. — Kyle Minor

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

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen

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Ah. I see we are now into the second movement of the Nakamura Suite in G-Minor! — Kevin Sylvester

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively. — Stephenie Meyer

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities. — Charles Dickens

Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White

Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor — Neal Stephenson

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

Read my book on Amazon Kindle Store- The Sergeant Who Raped A Minor. — Joyesh Mazumdar

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. — Randy Alcorn

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. — Minor White

Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled. — Larry Niven

You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I can. — Susan Reynolds

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

100% Reason to remember the name. — Fort Minor

To create a minor 7 chord we add a b7 to a minor triad. The formula is 1 b3 5 b7. — Joseph Alexander

All photographs are self-portraits. — Minor White

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases. — James W. Pennebaker

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart. — Brandon Sanderson

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else — Richard Selzer

I tried to shrug, but I'm sure
it looked like a minor seizure. — Penny Reid

Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry. — Corri Wilson

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life. — Stanley Morison

Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems a marvel. — Fernando Pessoa

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. — Donna Tartt

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

We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen

More shouts, and then my father was there, staring down at me in horror: the minor pagan god, appalled at what his worshiper had done. — Marie Brennan

What is common to both, however, is the accumulation of many minor victories to make a major victory. — Mao Zedong

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year ... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time. — Bob Uecker

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration. — Marie Bashkirtseff

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see — Seth Grahame-Smith