Quotes About Primitive

I suppose I could have helped them see how their life histories deepened their distress or given them some more grownup ways of conceiving of God, but few were interested in that. We were engaged in a more ancient drama, wrestling far more primitive fears.

Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.

Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Emotion pours over me like a tidal wave, drowning me with primitive force.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

Reason is a makeshift thing, at best. We have used it but a scant half-million years; our instincts reach back to the days when we crawled in primeval ooze. Trust instinct.

In any situation where our brains perceive extreme threat, the neocortex (the most recently evolved layer of the brain, which performs logical calculation) may be "hijacked" by the deeper, more primitive reptilian layer.

The feeling of fraternal warmth towards fellow beings handicapped by their social background became transformed into a self-degrading worship of the primitive, the uncouth, the humorless; of the blockheaded class-conscious proletarian - the cult of the lowest common denominator.

Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does.

We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. One world is enough, even there we feel stifled. We desire to find our own idealized image; they're supposed to be globes, civilizations more perfect than ours; in other worlds we expect to find the image of our own primitive past.

L'uomo primitivo non conosceva il bar. Quando la mattina si alzava, nella sua caverna, egli avvertiva subito un forte desiderio di caffè. Ma il caffè non era ancora stato inventato e l'uomo primitivo aggrottava la fronte, assumendo la caratteristica espressione scimmiesca.

ten thousand years ago every human on the planet lived much as the Na'vi do, by hunting, fishing, and harvesting the fruits of the great wildwoods

It makes me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations.

It made me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations.

Corruption isn't about giving in to the seduction of bribery; it is about giving in to the seduction of human nature, the angry drumbeats of our primitive brains and the inner whispers of our feelings.

evaluando dichas culturas como primitivas y atrasadas. Fue así como surgió el mito de la «superioridad de Europa»

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

A string is always a primitive unless you create it in a special way using an object constructor. We'll talk about object constructors later. And you can always use the typeof operator on your variable to see if it is of type string or object.

When you pass a primitive value it is copied into the parameter. We call this "passing by value." So if you change the value of the parameter in your function body it has no affect on our original argument's value. The exception to this is passing an array or object, and we'll get to that in a bit.

It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.