Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We have grown from primitive man into modern ways and are now looking for modern humans from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides… — Roy Taylor 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 subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime.… — Carl Orff 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