Prima Quotes

You have sewage contaminating the water supply... You not only have the danger of the sewage itself, the need for water is one of the primary needs that must be fulfilled and people will drink dirty water, if they get thirsty enough. - Irwin Redlener

You get the customer, the primary customer, which is the child, in the door, and then the adult will also typically buy something else, adding to revenues and profits. - Dean Haskell

You gear yourself up to produce great content for the medium you're serving. We've been serving the primary medium of television for many years, and so our systems and creative people are very focused on that notion. The way we got our digital media businesses off the ground was extending our TV shows and franchises, but now we're starting to see that each medium has its own dynamic and its own rhythms. What works on MTV may not work on Overdrive, and vice versa. So we wanted to creative groups of people who are obsessed about serving new platforms as we have been in the traditional TV area. - Brian Graden

You could just stay in the system and get reprimanded a million times. Now [lawyers] have to be concerned when they get more than one. It was really meant to just put an end to never-ending reprimands. - Patricia King

You cannot measure the absolute speeds of the stars, but you can measure their relative speeds along the line of sight, because if a star is moving toward us its light is shifted to shorter wave lengths, and if it is moving away from us its light is shifted to longer wave lengths. - Joel Primack

You always have to take into account the tax benefit, particularly with people who have income from other sources. Is it their primary focus? Probably not. But it is a great benefit to have along the way. - Robert Willens

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart-one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. - Edgar Allan Poe

Year in and year out our ultimate goal is to get to the NCAA Tournament. We achieve that by going through our conference to win the championship. Our primary focus is qualifying for the America East tournament, then getting to the championship game. It's simplistic but it's what we look for. - Sandy Bridgeman

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. - Steig Larsson

Worried by the development of events concerning Iraq. - Yevgeny Primakov