Quotes About Primitive

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

Heavy metal is always going to be there. At its core, it's all about a primitive connection we all need to keep in our lives.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

where did these people their food? i'm hungry.

True beasts know no gods.

We are mammals who need sex, need companionship, who seek the protective enclave of the family for reasons of survival and reproduction. We select a so-called loved one for the most primitive reason - my hero's preference for a pear-shaped woman is self-explanatory, I think. The loved one laughs or smells like the parent who gave one youthful succor and all else is projected, all else is invented

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

There must be something deep within our memory as a species that is pleased by being able to look at what is making us warm.

While suggesting you repent, prophets very seldom predict the wrath of the gods in terms of landslides and hurricanes. No. Floods and fires are what you get for the rottenness of your ways. Primitive man was really on his way when he learned to kindle the one and had enough of the other nearby to put it out.

For every year humans had been modern, they had been primitive for seven hundred more, which left a residue, and by then the back part of my brain was firmly in charge - My tribe needs you gone, pal. And you're ugly, too. And you're a pussy.

She said a silent prayer of gratitude and went to the stove, making as little noise as possible, stirring the embers with a poker and then shoving in several sticks of the precious seasoned wood. When the stove was putting out noticeable heat again, she made her way to the hearth and repeated the process, feeling a certain primitive joy as the flames leaped up around the fresh logs, crackling cheerfully and spilling warmth over her bare feet.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.