Secondary Quotes

300 Secondary quotes by 271 unique authors

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished… — John Playfair
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the… — Iron & Wine
I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career.… — Eva Mendes
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of… — Unknown Author
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject. — Claude Monet
Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably… — Edward Abbey
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an… — John Hume
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the… — George Balanchine
Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines… — Harry Allen Overstreet
The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him. — Erwin W. Lutzer
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about… — Barack Obama
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the… — Stewart Copeland
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible… — Dashiell Hammett
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of… — Pope John Paul II
There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market, — Steve Wozniak
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form… — Georg Cantor
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution… — Eugenie Scott
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently… — Yvon Chouinard
In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary. — Dai Vernon
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them. — Kevin Powers
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the… — Bell Hooks
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is… — Ayn Rand

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