Primal Quotations

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.

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

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

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.

There is something about the sport that is so filmic ... there is something about the availability and the purity of these two guys who are absolutely stripped down to a very, very primal contest.

For me, it has to be something that matters, ... Something that really moves me in a very primal place in order to get me to kind of sacrifice my life for that amount of time. And by the way, when I'm not working, boy, time flies.

When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'