Mainly Quotes

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.