Top 64 Totem Quotes
#1. In their eyes I must have appeared like some kind of nightmarish totem, a domestic idiot suffering from the irreversible brain damage of a motorway accident and now put out each morning to view the scene of his own cerebral death.
J.G. Ballard
#2. The nurse looked surprised. 'You're a bit high on the totem pole to be taking statements.' Carol debated momentarily how to describe her relationship with Tony. 'Colleague' was insufficient, 'landlord' somehow misleading and 'friend' both more and less than the truth. She shrugged. 'He feeds my cat.
Val McDermid
#3. Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Mason Cooley
#4. This feat has been achieved largely by appealing to the racism and vulnerability of lower-class whites, a group of people who are understandably eager to ensure that they never find themselves trapped at the bottom of the American totem pole.
Michelle Alexander
#5. One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
Peter Coyote
#6. A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Saul Steinberg
#7. I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel Washington
#8. Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.
Stephnie Weir
#9. On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.
Charisma Carpenter
#10. When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they will often establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal.
Yuval Noah Harari
#11. My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole.
Marion Jones
#12. Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.
Robert M. Price
#13. In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
Maurice Greene
#14. The butterfly is the totem of transformation and change and a symbol of courage.
Mary Alice Monroe
#15. Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
Barry Zito
#16. I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.
Lita Ford
#18. You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
Andrew Bogut
#19. When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.
Steve Irwin
#20. This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child ... .
Eric Zorn
#21. I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.
Gina Rodriguez
#22. You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
Emily Carr
#23. If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me.
Todd Rundgren
#24. Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
Frank Moore Colby
#25. Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can't be used as a totem or fetish in that way.
Terry Eagleton
#26. I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
Abigail Disney
#27. In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
Andy Roddick
#28. Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.
Ruth Hurmence Green
#29. Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.
Dave Attell
#30. The staff used to say, "When the president eats, everybody eats." That kind of leadership is real. I figured the saying applied to every president but really the saying came from Bush 41's years. He appreciated the lowest on the totem pole because he'd once pounded the Navy pavement.
Gary J. Byrne
#31. It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.
Jim Cramer
#32. Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity.
Simone De Beauvoir
#33. When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
Leslie Cockburn
#34. If you're so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.
Michelle N. Onuorah
#35. I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
Rachel Nichols
#36. It was the greatest stroke of good fortune he had ever encountered in life. In other words, he had finally worked his way up to the lowest spot on the totem pole.
Haruki Murakami
#37. And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.
Tom Robbins
#38. Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
Louise Bourgeois
#39. I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
Erica Goros
#40. A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.
Kenneth Anger
#41. When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best - which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.
Christopher Hitchens
#42. In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.
Sigmund Freud
#43. You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.
Kingsley Amis
#44. The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem. This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course.
Joyce Carol Oates
#45. Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.
Mason Cooley
#46. Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
Bill Viola
#47. My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
Beau Willimon
#48. each variety of humor is a sort of totem, making at once for unity and separation. Its votaries it unites into a closely-knit brotherhood, but it separates them sharply off from all the rest of the world.
Hope Mirrlees
#49. Sarcasm is my sacred totem animal. I swear I wouldn't survive without it.
Anonymous
#50. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you.
Mindy Kaling
#51. I was surprised she'd heard us. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you. My sense of invisibility had made me loose-lipped.
Mindy Kaling
#52. I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.
Burk Uzzle
#53. The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.
David Brooks
#54. The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.
Sigmund Freud
#55. I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.
Drew Carey
#56. Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
Barry Manilow
#57. Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting ... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
Jerome Robbins
#58. What an indictment that is, of the Ivy League and its peers: that colleges four levels down on the academic totem pole, enrolling students whose SAT scores are hundreds of points lower than theirs, deliver a better education, in the highest sense of the word, than do those institutions.
William Deresiewicz
#59. Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.
Nikki Rowe
#60. the simultaneous popping of all the bubbles of joy that have been hidden among the cells of his body. The
Nick Totem
#61. Animals are not only beholders of great beauty,
but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom.
Molly Friedenfeld
#62. He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed.
R.J. Harlick
#63. When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#64. We invite you, in reading this book, to cast away your preconceptions and enter, with us, a magical world where all things are connected to you, and you are connected to all things.
Sun Bear
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