All Quotes

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
‐‐ Mark Haddon

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
‐‐ Bee Wilson

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
‐‐ John Wooden

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
‐‐ Alain Aspect

The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander

The main issue is huge government spending, and my record has been trying to make sure the federal government lives within its means. I guess that's really what separates where Republicans have been from the Democrats.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
‐‐ Dee Dee Ramone

The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.
‐‐ Simon Pegg

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
‐‐ Jean Genet

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
‐‐ Thomas Hardy

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
‐‐ Abhishek Bachchan

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
‐‐ Macy Gray

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
‐‐ Grace Slick

The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.
‐‐ Mordechai Vanunu

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
‐‐ Catherine Bell

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
‐‐ Saad Hariri

The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.
‐‐ Chester Brown

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
‐‐ Dr. Seuss

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
‐‐ Lee R. Raymond

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
‐‐ Edward Teller

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
‐‐ Neal Boortz

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
‐‐ David Mamet

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
‐‐ Joshua Ferris

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.
‐‐ Muqtada al Sadr

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
‐‐ Edward Bach

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
‐‐ Cynthia Weil

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
‐‐ Hayley Atwell

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better about life, and the fact that I do that is quite overwhelming, really.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
‐‐ Florence Griffith Joyner

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
‐‐ Daniel Ek

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
‐‐ George Carlin

The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.
‐‐ Terry Sanford

The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is that they haven't been looking for it. It takes a lecturer in media studies such as Paul Brighton to point out that media management was part of the job of a Victorian prime minister.
‐‐ Jane Ridley

The main reason why I would even potentially go to the NFL Draft is for my family.
‐‐ Chad Kelly

The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.
‐‐ Ronald Coase

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer