Major Quotes

We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

Taiwan is a major economy.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.