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minor
«Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.»
Author: William Bridges
| Keywords:
disappointment, disenchantment, minor, shock, signal, signaling, transition, transitions
«Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
minor, Shirley, Shirley Temple, temple
«A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.»
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
defense, major, minor, minors, sense of humor, troubles
«Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Beauty,
Sin,
Women
| Keywords:
constitute, minor, sacrament, sacraments, the sacrament
«Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
family history, Histories, minor, The Downs
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aims, composition, cur, curs, dejection, elegy, employing, fiddle-faddle, fiddle, fiddled, fiddles, fiddling, foretell, foretells, foretold, herd, homeward, knell, knells, lea, like this, loafing, minor, parting, plod, plodding, plods, somewhat, The Lea, verse, without aim, without humor
«CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrangement, commodities, display, exhibitor, intent, intents, minor, neighbor, observe, of his own, The Arrangement, wares
«Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
abound, abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, doomed, entities, formal, minor, representation, representations, rightful, significance, symbolic, symbolic representation
«And I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
advise, ask me, child psychology, lap, minor, physical education, psychology, temple