A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.
Roger Mahony

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
Bill Haley

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
Joe Cocker

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.
Robert Cormier

It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
John Hench

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
Hideki Tojo

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
Conan O'Brien

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
James Lovelock

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Gene Tierney

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
Irving Babbitt

I'm often criticized for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
Helena Bonham Carter

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.
Paul Nurse

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.
Ryan Sheckler

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
Bill Sienkiewicz

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
Sergei Bubka

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
Natan Sharansky