All Quotes

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
‐‐ Duane Michals

The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't solve hunger if we don't have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it's through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves.
‐‐ Ertharin Cousin

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.
‐‐ Raul Grijalva

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.
‐‐ Chen Shui-bian

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.
‐‐ Saoirse Ronan

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.
‐‐ Steve Alford

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.
‐‐ Loretta Napoleoni

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
‐‐ Flann O'Brien

The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.
‐‐ Martin Gore

The majority of the time, I'm just in my team training clothes or work-out gear, but whenever I'm killing time, I always like to watch 'Project Runway' or 'America's Next Top Model.'
‐‐ Caroline Buchanan

The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
‐‐ Aaron Rodgers

The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.
‐‐ David A. R. White

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.
‐‐ Eric Close

The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!
‐‐ Chris Evans

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
‐‐ Gijs de Vries

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
‐‐ Alan Brien

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
‐‐ Jim Leach

The majority of women in America look like me.
‐‐ Brooke Elliott

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
‐‐ Patricia Clarkson

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
‐‐ Alfred A. Montapert

The majors are very important, and I would love to win one or many. I'll continue to compete in them hard and win if I can. There's not much more I can say. I'd love to be part of the club of people who've won majors.
‐‐ Luke Donald

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
‐‐ Roy Ayers

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.
‐‐ Cesar Romero

The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder

The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn.
‐‐ Miles Teller

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
‐‐ James Baldwin

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
‐‐ Joseph McCabe

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
‐‐ Edward Everett Hale

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
‐‐ David Byrne

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
‐‐ David Thewlis

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
‐‐ John Muir

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.
‐‐ Andry Rajoelina

The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
‐‐ Paul Cook

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are so highly elaborate that the scribes who indite them are almost looked upon as litterateurs.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.
‐‐ Michael Specter

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!
‐‐ Liza Minnelli