Primal Quotes

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron

Women, Single, Regret

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.
John Krasinski

Insecurity, Fight, Fall

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 fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
Camille Paglia

Women, Children, Working

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler

Two, Natural, Passions

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 and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Camille Paglia

Nature, Struggle, Fire

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 the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar

Cool, Simple, Done

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.
Angie Harmon

Dreams, Kids, Wants

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
Paula Cole

Health, Self, Thinking

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

Woman, Candle, Timeless

The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Change, Work

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
Karen Armstrong

Lose, Fail, Purity

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
Patrick Swayze

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Edward Bellamy

Democracy, Worth, Individual

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
Johnny Knoxville

Funny, Hurt, Someone

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Siobhan Fahey

Music, Working, Touch

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
Gary Bauer

Today, Children, Human

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
Criss Angel

Art, Water, Early

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
Margot Kidder

Love, Movies, Fun

People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.
Timothy Olyphant

Love, Scared, Deal

Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
John Carpenter

Life, Live, Greed

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.
Armie Hammer

Woman, Role, Protect

Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
Oren Peli

Life, Death, Movies

It's real primal; I just like playing music.
Ronnie Dunn

Music, Real, Playing

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It's really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche.
Laurie Holden

Character, Human, Others

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
George H. Mead

Nation, Ourselves, Interests

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
John Lone

Mother, Why, Insecure

Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.
Robyn

Future, Sure, Internet

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.
Victor Salva

Fear, Humans, Eaten

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 has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
Joseph J. Ellis

History, Character, Respected

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