Primitively Quotes

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

Eric Clapton

#2. One of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

Geoffrey Hill

#3. I shall arm myself with a knife" said Mr. Hale: "the days of eating fruit so primitively as you describe are over with me. I must pare it and quarter it before I can enjoy it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. I have lived twice as long as I should have," the oldest one said, his voice crackling like an old radio because decades were rubbing up against each other around his vocal chords, "and I've never seen so many people so cheerful in such a bad time. It is the Devil's work.

Salman Rushdie

#6. All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"
an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

Gretel Ehrlich

#7. Loving God is like my being black. I just am. [No one says] 'You know what? I'm gonna be blacker today!' It's my culture. It's not something I put on or take off or show more. You just communicate that in the way you live your life.

Angela Bassett

#8. Every why hath a wherefore.

William Shakespeare

#9. Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

John Green

#10. ...and I was reminded....of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something that does not happen.

Charles McCarry

#11. An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

Eric Maisel

#12. He had that indefinable air which comes to young men who have had to make their way up from a ten-dollar start.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. The boy became a man and left home and became a dying figure on a cross. I want to be able to imagine that what happened to him will not come, it will see us and decide - not now, not them. And we will be left in peace to grow old.

Colm Toibin

#14. Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.

Leon Brown

#15. Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Thomas Paine

#16. It's a different kind of missing. You're trying to remember, and he's trying to forget.

Cath Crowley

#17. If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#18. Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

Tracy Morgan