Primy Quotes

#1. A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent
sweet, not lasting;
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.

William Shakespeare

#2. No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. She clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all to jeering laughter.

Mark Twain

#4. People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.

Marco Rubio

#5. In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines

Steve McConnell

#7. When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.

Portia De Rossi

#8. Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

Josh Billings

#9. He had left his boyfriend in Alicante, at his father's house. Alec's sister, Isabelle, was staying there too.

Cassandra Clare

#10. The sacred being speaks at a sacred time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

Susanna Kaysen

#12. When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Bertrand Piccard

#13. Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.

Shannon Lee

#14. Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.

Sylvia Kristel

#15. The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

Akhenaton

#16. If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

Donella Meadows