Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 353 authors

I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I… — Douglas Adams
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another… — Henry David Thoreau
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured,… — Mircea Eliade
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because… — Jean Cocteau
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… — Northrop Frye
It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in… — Michel Houellebecq
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. — Karen Marie Moning
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and… — Henry David Thoreau
He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black hair grew rakishly… — Lora Leigh
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly… — Terry Pratchett
But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of… — Susan Cain
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all… — Anais Nin
To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the… — Bertrand Russell
I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive. — Kim Harrison
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC… — Nelson Mandela
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain… — Oscar Wilde
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the… — Harlan Ellison

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