Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat. , Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima. ]
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.
Vampires are such prima donnas.
You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.
If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.
Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it.