Primal Quotes

169 quotes by 149 authors

But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike anything I thought… — Lauren DeStefano
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil… — A. E. Housman
Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.â€ A primal… — Kiersten White
Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback… — Becca Fitzpatrick
You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some… — Megan McCafferty
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction,… — Penelope Lively
Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. — Max Brooks
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us. — Patrick Swayze
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. — Clay Shirky
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. — Dean Ornish
I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place. — Alicia Keys
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is… — Stanley Hauerwas
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I… — Sendhil Mullainathan
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the… — Claron McFadden
I love going to horror movies - especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal… — Drew Goddard
During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon… — Luanne Rice
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many… — Robert Graham
It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge… — Joseph J. Ellis

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