Quotes About Primal Instincts

#1. That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.

Patricia Clarkson

#2. I love going to horror movies - especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater.

Drew Goddard

#3. I searched my soul, and discovered that there was nothing anywhere in my upbringing, experience, or even primal instincts to tell me how to react to someone who has quite simply, calmly, sitting right there in front of me, stolen one of my biscuits.

Douglas Adams

#4. I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.

Andy Serkis

#5. The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I can think of. It gives you this chance to sort of reflect on who we are and look at the sort of uglier side that we don't always look at, and have fun with that very thing.

Drew Goddard

#6. Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

Ori Hofmekler

#7. One of the most primal survival instincts the brain has is finding pattern and assigning meaning. When there is a breakdown, it will scramble to find those patterns again as quickly as possible.

Eileen Cook

#8. Gentleman, this is a football.

Vince Lombardi

#9. Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus

Ryan Holiday

#10. What kind of a man would turn his daughter into an outboard motor?

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. For, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act.

Yann Martel

#12. The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.

Daniel Keyes

#13. Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.

T.H. White