This brash act ( which ultimately benefited his primary competitors as well as Tolkien ) was really the Big Bang that founded the modern fantasy field, and only someone like my father could have done that.

Tolkien wrote in one of his letters: " what I think is a primary ‘ fact ’ about my work, that it is all of a piece, and fundamentally linguistic in inspiration.

Ultimately, however, his primary passion was still practical optics, once noting that " In all my experiments I could, owing to lack of time, pay attention to only those matter which appeared to have a bearing upon practical optics ".

The question of primary concern of any army commander waging war in Virginia is “ where are my river crossings ”.

" Additionally, Love cited a conversation with her mother as being the primary inspiration for the band's name: " the name came from my mom.

Burke credits his grandmother as his primary spiritual and musical influence: " She was my mentor, a spiritual medium directly associated with Daddy Grace and Father Divine.

" He further stated, " From his own public comments and my reading of the record, it is apparent that Karl Rove has modeled the Bush presidency on that of William McKinley ... and modeled himself on Mark Hanna, the man who virtually manufactured McKinley ", a man whose primary " passion " was attending to corporate and imperial power.

I used this manuscript as my primary reference for my thesis, which I submitted and was passed in 1976.

" One of my primary objectives it to form tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion-which when once accomplished, will give expedition, uniformity, and exactness to the whole ... In short, the tools which I contemplate are similar to engraving on a copper plate from which may be taken a great number of impressions, perfectly alike ".

After Gilchrest's loss in the primary, he broke with his party and endorsed Queen Anne's County State's Attorney Frank Kratovil, the Democratic nominee, in the general election, being quoted as saying, " Let's see, the Republican Party, or my eternal soul?

The film follows several key 1992 Campaign events such as the Clinton Campaign's attack on " Read my lips: no new taxes ", the Gennifer Flowers scandal, the New Hampshire primary upset and others as they played out inside of the Clinton 1992 Campaign.

Campaigning during the Georgia primary, he said: " I am myself an American and I love to preach my doctrine before undiluted one hundred percent Americans, because my platform is, in a word, undiluted Americanism and undying loyalty to the republic.

In describing his teaching philosophy, Strasberg wrote, " The two areas of discovery that were of primary importance in my work at the Actors Studio and in my private classes were improvisation and affective memory.

With six children and five miscarriages, her primary vocation was motherhood, which prompted her to say: " I'm not judgmental about women who work, but I was so besotted with my children I never wanted them out of my sight.

“ One of the primary methods that I use to create my music is linked to two concepts: Sacred Geometry ( the use of shapes to symbolically express natural principles ), and Energy ( the potential for change and change itself in physical, metaphysical and psychic phenomena, including Life, Growth, etc .).

He defines matter in book I's concluding chapter, 9: " For my definition of matter is just this — the primary substratum of each thing, from which it comes to be without qualification, and which persists in the result.

Primary and secondary ( and occasionally tertiary ) are words used by some polyamorists to distinguish between different degrees of relationship and to describe participants in those relationships ( e. g. " John is my primary ").

* I raise children and share finances with my wife, Alice, so she is a primary partner.

* Alice is my primary partner, therefore I should place my relationship with her ahead of that with Jane.

`` I don't aim to have minors breathing down my neck when I'm a-drinking '':

To get it out into the daylight's glow Is my life's aim both first and last, the whole.

I aim to keep a little whisky still back in the ridge for my pleasure ''.

He supported himself with a range of jobs, but said he " never lost sight of my ultimate aim to become an actor.

She wrote to her daughter Elisabeth: " My principal aim is to have the honour of God before my eyes in all things and to preserve my authority, not for myself, but for the conservation of this kingdom and for the good of all your brothers ".

" I believe it my duty to be a man ; to live and move in the world at large ; to battle with evil wherever I see it, and to aim at the annihilation of all corrupt institutions and at the establishment of all good, and generous, and useful institutions in their places.

In an interview with Rolling Stone in October 2004, she said: " when I'm working on a new record, the most important thing is to not repeat myself ... that's always my aim: to try and cover new ground and really to challenge myself.

" To unite Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter under the common name of Irishmen in order break the connection with England, the never failing source of all our political evils, that was my aim ".

On his departure, Quinn said: " Everything is in place for Sunderland to really make a statement, which was always my aim.

For example, Henry's " I know not what to say, my title's weak " ( 1. 1. 135 ), " All will revolt from me, and turn to him " ( 1. 1. 152 ), " And I with grief and sorrow to the court " ( 1. 1. 211 ), and " Revenged may she be on that hateful Duke ,/ Whose haughty spirit, wing'd with desire ,/ Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle / Tire on the flesh of me and my son " ( 1. 1. 267 – 270 ); Exeter's " And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all " ( 1. 1. 274 ); the entirety of York's soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 4 ; Warwick's pause to get his breath during the Battle of Barnet ( 2. 3. 1 – 5 ); all of Act 2, Scene 5 ( including dialogue from Henry, the father and the son ) up to the entry of Prince Edward at line 125 ; all of Henry's monologue in Act 3, Scene 1, prior to his arrest ( ll. 13 – 54 ); Richard's entire soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 2 ( ll. 124 – 195 ); Margaret's " Ay, now begins a second storm to rise ,/ For this is he that moves both wind and tide " ( 3. 3. 47 – 48 ); Warwick's soliloquy at the end of the Act 3, Scene 3 ( ll. 257 – 268 ); Richard's " I hear, yet say not much, but think the more " ( 4. 1. 85 ) and " Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter :/ I stay not for love of Edward but the crown " ( 141. 124 – 125 ); Warwick's " O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come " ( 5. 1. 18 ); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry ( ll. 61 – 93 ) and Richard's " To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master / And cried ' All hail ', whenas he meant all harm " ( 5. 7. 33 – 34 ).

That was my personal aim … and on that basis I think it is a success.

It is certainly not my personal plan or aim.

Weber states in the closing of this essay, " it is, of course, not my aim to substitute for a one-sided materialistic an equally one-sided spiritualistic causal interpretation of culture and history.

Zhu quotes that “ I herewith announce my intention and my aim to eat people as a protest against mankind ’ s moral idea that he / she cannot eat people .” In further response to Zhu ’ s bold performance, The Ministry of Culture cited a menace to social order and the spiritual health of the Chinese people, and banned exhibitions involving culture, animal abuse, corpses, and overt violence and sexuality.

The sarcophagus says that Mordoc's failure will not interrupt " my sacred mission ", and he orders his servant to prepare the army and ready his sun barge, presumably with the aim of attacking Buldur's Gate itself.

Johnston, a corn trader and tricyclist, had the firm aim, in his own words " to prove that to my native country of Dumfries belongs the honour of being the birthplace of the invention of the bicycle ".

* The book ends with a " Song of Youth ", with these opening words: " As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

Other famous quotations by him are: " Art is not my aim, it is my means ", and " I am but a Jew praying in art.

Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

`` Amen '', said the Reverend Doran, grabbing his rifle propped up against a tombstone, `` and now my brethren, it would seem that our presence is required elsewhere ''.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

I consider it to be my job to expose the public to what is being written today ''.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

`` The confusion is not my invention.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

It consists of fragmentary personal revelations, such as `` The Spark '': `` There is a spark dwells deep within my soul.

That little spark is all the wealth I know, That little spark is my life's misery ''.

Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.