Top 222 Minor Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Minor Quotes from famous people such as Henry Rollins, Josh Silver, Ryan Howard, Jan C. Ting, Dimebag Darrell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tel

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, ‘This band is going to be the king of the town.’ It was obvious. They were so good.
Henry Rollins
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.
Josh Silver
Once you leave the minor leagues, you want to not come back. But it’s the path that I’m on, the journey that I’m on.
Ryan Howard
The goal of immigration policy should be what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole. I would recommend limiting immigration to spouses and minor children of citizens, plus additional immigrants chosen for special skills needed in the U.S.
Jan C. Ting
Sometimes it’s cool to play major third and minor third diads back-to-back, or a minor third followed by a root/fifth diad – whatever combo sounds good.
Dimebag Darrell
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn’t aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
Jasper Johns
Rather than making minor repairs to a few small leaks in the roof, the Architect of the Capitol is proposing to tear down the entire roof and replace it with something called a new vegetative roofing system. We shouldn’t be wasting precious taxpayer money on a new, state-of-the-art vegetative roofing system.
Paul Gosar
As alleged, Ghislaine Maxwell facilitated, aided, and participated in acts of sexual abuse of minors. Maxwell enticed minor girls, got them to trust her, and then delivered them into the trap that she and Jeffrey Epstein had set. She pretended to be a woman they could trust.
Audrey Strauss
Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.
Jim Evans
This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
Jeri Ryan
I wanted to be in the big leagues, not stuck in the minor leagues.
Aroldis Chapman
Even in the minor leagues, I just said I’ll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn’t going to just give up. I was always going to try. I’m here. I figured I might as well try.
Mookie Betts
Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses.
Rashida Tlaib
We’re raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it’s counter-productive.
J. K. Simmons
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Kate Chopin
I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that’s why they called me up to the major leagues.
Jose Altuve
My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
Barry Larkin
I worked on the workshop of ‘Topdog/Underdog’ before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I’m based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
Omari Hardwick
I am a sad person. In this world there are people who like major notes and minor notes. I like minor notes.
Vikram Bhatt
The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it’s major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you’re not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.
Robert Palmer
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle’s cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.
Amy Bloom
In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
Ben Zobrist
I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I’d be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I’d hit a chopper that wouldn’t even reach the shortstop, and I’d get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit’s a hit. I’ll take 3,000 of ’em.
Mike Trout
The major tragedies in life, there’s just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It’s my way of dealing, and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
Octavia E. Butler
Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.
Vikram Patel
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, ‘Hey, celebrities are just like us.’
Nate Silver
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
David Henry Hwang
In a system where ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is the ultimate maxim, a person who is charged but not yet convicted of a minor crime should not be sent to prison merely because he or she lacks the financial ability to post bail.
Chris Sununu
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
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
Steve Rushin
In Canada, we didn't really pay attention to American h

In Canada, we didn’t really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk.
Gavin McInnes
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.
Derek Walcott
I’m the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time… for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.
Mike D
Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they’re really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the ‘pigeon-holing’ thing.
Dominic Monaghan
My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science, so I learned during my required courses at Vanderbilt University.
Kimberly Bryant
Ever since I released my first album, I’ve tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.
Jose Gonzalez
Every college player thinks they’re on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.
Richard Linklater
I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
Ryne Sandberg
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi
I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.
Bobby Davro
The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to… New Orleans.
Richard Burr
I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I’ve been using them throughout my career, but they’ve never taken center stage, they’ve never been really powerful, they’ve never expressed some of the experiences I had growing up in the U.S. Johnny Tam is the first one.
Tess Gerritsen
I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called ‘Minor Miracles’ by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into ‘Here in Spirit.’
Jim James
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
Thom Gunn
Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you’re kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan’s perspective.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
When you’re writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.
Greil Marcus
When I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was listening to Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I wasn’t. Bay Area punk bands were doing it right.
Julien Baker
Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it’s become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.
Gil Marks
I guess I like minor chords better than major ones, in general.
Aaron Dessner
If I’ve got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it’s that there are no minor characters.
Jane Gardam
I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn’t been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones… I read nothing but Sara Teasdale.
Anne Sexton