We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as primitive in the way Western education has traditionally conditioned people to perceive it.” — Gregory Cajete Copy Share Image
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands… — Malcolm Allison Copy Share Image
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'. — John Thomas Sladek Copy Share Image
No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means that the primitive people were… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“Primitive (and guerrilla) warfare consists of war stripped to its essentials: the murder of enemies; the theft or destruction of their sustenance,… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you had a yard as a child, you probably remember it with a startling intimacy. You knew that yard: every inch,… — Sam Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. — John Updike Copy Share Image
We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image