#primarily

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#band #drummer #primarily #sit #supposed

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#god #make #men #primarily #realize

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#illusions #images #our #place #primarily

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#case #forces #growth #power #primarily

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#disagrees #i #i think #i write #like

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#businesses #create #did #early #effort

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best #books #care #characters #driven

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#environmental #every #fossil #fossil fuels #fuels

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cause #change #cheaply #climate #climate change