Primal Quotes

169 quotes by 148 authors

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out… — Danica McKellar
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted… — Camille Paglia
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival… — Camille Paglia
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! — Tracey Ullman
Darwin speculated that â€œmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… — Oliver Sacks
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are… — Stephen Fry
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and… — Hermann Hesse
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a… — Jim Butcher
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. — Carol Shields
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control… — Camille Paglia
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we… — Christopher McDougall
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your… — Wilhelm Reich
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,… — Arundhati Roy
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk… — H P Lovecraft
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. — Paul Klee
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something… — Sarah Dessen
The voice was low and tinged with a hint of Scotland. It would have caused Alexia to shiver and think primal monkey thoughts about moons… — Gail Carriger
Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that… — Tom Robbins

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