A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
Edward Tufte

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
Alicia Keys

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Lafcadio Hearn

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
Howard Staunton

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
Rudolph A. Marcus

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
Jim Evans

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.
Rebecca Lobo

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
Sachin Tendulkar

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
Henry Harland

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard

Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.
Mats Sundin

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Giacomo Casanova

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
Gerry Cooney