I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl A. Menninger

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
William Howard Taft

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
Buffalo Bill

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
Buffalo Bill

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
John Irving

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
Diane Abbott

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
Timothy Geithner

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.
Timothy Geithner

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.
Timothy Geithner

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
David Byrne

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
John Howard

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
Shakira

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
Kim Dae Jung

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
Kim Dae Jung

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
Sheryl Crow