Quotes of: Primaries Keyword

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

David Blunkett

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

John Cleese

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Primo Levi

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

Leon Panetta

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Salman Rushdie

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

Arlen Specter

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Walter Kirn

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

William Safire

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

Mark McKinnon

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

In one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, nearly 30,000 women told researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that they'd rather lose weight than attain any other goal, a figure that alone suggests just how complicated t...

Appetites: Why Women Want

The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the romantic—asserts that women are inevitably, even if rashly and tragically, drawn to men; that even when that attraction is suicidal (e. g, Tristan...

Adrienne Rich

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

Sydney Brenner

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Chuck Close

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

Oscar Wilde

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

Robert Crais

When we made 'Primary,' it was just one camera. We were trying to make ourselves inconspicuous.

Robert Drew

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

Karen Mills