Top 28 A Primer Quotes
#1. From Nic's point of view, her older sister had been a primer on how not to live her life.
Gabrielle Zevin
#2. The Grecian's maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
Charles Caleb Colton
#3. My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
Francia Raisa
#4. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.
Kiera Cass
#5. It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Bob Woodward
#6. The Bible became a jewel in the hands of the Reformers not because it was a "handbook for happy living" or a "primer of metaphysics about God," but because in it the Christian possessed the "the swaddling clothes in which Christ lies."85
Matthew Barrett
#7. The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.
Shane Carruth
#8. Oh, to be in England, now that England's gone. This World Service, this little bakelite gateway into the world of Sidney Box, Charters and Caldecott, Mazawattee tea, Kennedy's Latin Primer and dark, glistening streets. An
Stephen Fry
#9. I'll usually wash my face with a face wash, then I'll go to my makeup. I like to use Nip + Fab Dragon's Blood Fix Serum. It's moisturizing and also a great primer for your makeup. And, I try to use sunscreen every day.
Kylie Jenner
#10. Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)
Geoffrey Nunberg
#11. It's best to lay out your makeup as you would when planning your outfit. If you're using a brightening primer, then be judicious with your use of shimmer and sparkly things. I like to play with texture a bit, so you can always find a balance.
Tim Quinn
#12. I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your primer concern within other men
Ayn Rand
#14. I feel that the sins of the fathers should not be visited on the sons.
Cassandra Clare
#15. I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
Mario Batali
#16. The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
Joseph Campbell
#17. Well, I'm mad, but I'm not primer-in-the-face mad.
Joanna Gaines
#18. Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer - life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.
Philip Roth
#20. She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own
Salman Rushdie
#21. There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.
Jimmy Haslam
#22. It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
Leslie Caron
#23. I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.
Shane Carruth
#24. You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.
Jeff Foxworthy
#25. Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.
Eckhart Tolle
#26. Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.
Rian Johnson
#27. In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise 1 in the primer of minor poetry.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel - it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else.
Chuck Klosterman