Major Quotes - page 4

I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press. (Theo de Raadt)
Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries. View quote
Leon M. Lederman
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. View quote
Michael Korda
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life. View quote
Sheryl Crow
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. View quote
Maggie Gyllenhaal
From now on I'm thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way?” "Then,” said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I? View quote
Joseph Heller
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. View quote
Peter Singer
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries. (Peter Medawar)
The U. S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'Abolish the GLC', because I think it would be a major saving and would have released massive resources for more productive use. View quote
Ken Livingstone
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much. View quote
Elaine Paige
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. View quote
Alice Munro
It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. View quote
F. R. Leavis
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end. View quote
Camille Paglia
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. View quote
Kathy Acker
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
All the real money in investment will have to be made-as most of it has been in the past- not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements. (Benjamin Graham)
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extremely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony. View quote
Elliott Carter
As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. View quote
Hilaire Belloc