Primitus Quotes & Sayings

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense. — Ian McEwan

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement. — Mark Twain

A natural adversary is a customer service representative. — Jon Jones

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope. — Jenny Diski

And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"
"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly. — Umberto Eco

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam. — Sky Ferreira

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it. — Colin Cotterill

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. — Willie Nelson

I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up. — Shaquille O'Neal

The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today. — Dave Ramsey

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you. — Dirk Nowitzki

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. — Stephen King

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue. — Andy Stanley

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow. — Les Dawson

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell. — Robert Stone

Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period. — Mike Pompeo