“I once visited a village of primitive people. At village, I felt time and life moved slower.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. — Bill Maher 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
It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and… — Graham Nelson 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
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
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more… — Erich Fromm 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
For so long, the mainstays of cancer treatment have been chemotherapy and radiation. They're toxic and primitive. We need to look at… — Eva Vertes 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
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
In terms of their basic biochemical design…no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the… — Rachel Carson 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
In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive.… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
“What's it mean; are you determined To make modern all mankind? If so, you should be be-sermoned And brought back to healthy… — Charles C. Abbott Copy Share Image
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive." — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. — Robert Quine 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
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
