Prima Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year… — Peter Karmanos, Jr.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival… — Peter Birks
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble… — Earl Doherty
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the… — Edward Robert Harrison
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes. — Andrew Harvey
But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so moved, and there… — Nicole Oresme
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant.… — Israel Albert Horowitz
It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these… — Demi Moore
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American… — Maria Tallchief
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or… — Giuseppe Verdi
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette. — Marie Dressler
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one. — Dan Rather
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old… — Tom Waits
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is… — Sandra Day O'Connor
The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after… — Jennifer Ellison
I've been a prima-donna. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled,… — Mike Tyson
The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same… — Nigel Cole

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