Primaries Quotes - Page 29

• We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Country, Exercise, People

  7 Copy quote

• The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.

  Verity Stob

  Errors, Mind, Lap

  "Catch as Catch Can". www.theregister.co.uk. January 11, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Technology, Firsts

  "Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1906.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Business, Technology, Sight

  4 Copy quote

• My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

  Colin Firth

  Party, Substance, Actors

  6 Copy quote

• You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

  Judd Gregg

  Agency, Safety, Purpose

  "Financial Regulatory Reform: Washington 'Going Stupid' Again?". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

  Sue Grafton

  Fall, Decision, Merit

  9 Copy quote

• I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Passion, Writing, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

  Sally Hawkins

  School, Play, People

  4 Copy quote

• Mitt Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

  William Kristol

  President, Needs, Sitting

  "Trust the People" by William Kristol, www.weeklystandard.com. June 11, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Communication, Culture, Levels

  5 Copy quote

• Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

  Karen Mills

  Pockets, Needs, Cash

  4 Copy quote

• Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Self, Should Have

  11 Copy quote

• My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

  Max Barry

  Intelligent, Safety, Brain

  7 Copy quote

• I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

  Aphex Twin

  School, Hair, Feelings

  "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Successful, Speed, Factors

  8 Copy quote

• Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

  Mary McDonnell

  Emotional, Vocabulary, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Writing, World, Way

  4 Copy quote

• My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

  Paul O'Grady

  Teacher, School, Shoes

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2011.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Writing, Mean, Desire

  19 Copy quote

• Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

  Christina Romer

  Impact, Expectations, Growth

  4 Copy quote

• There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.

  Daniel Sunjata

  Inspiration, Actors, Today

  4 Copy quote

• One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like an [Etch A Sketch] - you take whatever he said and you can shake it up and it will be gone, and he's going to draw a whole new picture for the general election.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Etch A Sketch, Gone

  4 Copy quote

• The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Buddhism, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Culture

  4 Copy quote