In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Edward Koch
I think African art, primitive in a sense, influenced the contemporary and modern art from the beginning of the century. That's why I like to have those pieces together.
Fortuna Valentino
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin
It could go from a swing feel to a real primitive tribal thing and into some kind of chaos, all in one moment.
Stephen Perkins
They seem to have somewhat better buildings in the highlands, because it is cooler there. But much of Guatemala remains very primitive.
Anita Fremark
I've moved on, grown and learned in the years since then, and am designing interfaces that make the Mac's GUI feel as clumsy to use as the Mac made the old DOS-based systems feel primitive.
Jeff Raskin
They are primitive un-evolved bodies, so by studying these bodies we can learn more about how the solar system came to be in a way that's not otherwise possible.
Sheldon Schafer
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Hedda Hopper
We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult stem cells that would be found in bone marrow, ... They're much younger. They're more robust.
Dan Collins
What we're finding is that adolescents actually use a different part of their brain than adults do, in particular when responding to things with emotional content. They are much more likely to use the more primitive parts of their brain.
David Fassler
They unfortunately depicted ECT in a barbaric, primitive and completely unrealistic view.
Charles Nemeroff
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
H. P. Lovecraft
It's very primitive; it's very rudimentary.
Tom Donovan
Maybe it has to be primitive, but it still has to happen. It would be an international shame if it didn't.
Oliver Thomas
If you were to design a truly effective measure that would include a wide variety of factors that go into an examination of how police go about their jobs, you could, perhaps, achieve that end. But the analyses that we see come as a result of these kinds of efforts are crude and primitive. The goal is to achieve the desired result.
Heather Macdonald
Russia is using primitive and vulgar methods. This is the last attempt, the last fight to keep its influence on Ukraine.
Oleksander Dergachev
Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?
John Mccarthy
We're operating in primitive conditions. The size and scope is bigger than anything we've ever seen.
Julie Rochman
Ads are pretty primitive compared to what can be done with them.
Jonathan Rosenberg
The events involved in the indictment occurred over three years ago and represent about 1 percent of the business of Primitive Art Works.
Tom Durkin
Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.
Robert Leblanc
There is just talk, a primitive agreement, but in our plan there is a widening agreement.
Akif Zagros
I was raised by my grandma and grandpa in Florida. My grandpa was a Primitive Baptist minister, and all of these ladies, I know. This is like coming home. It's a joy to experience this young girl going through what she needs to go through to get to a place of comfort. To watch someone grow up and the village extend itself to her.
Sharon Scott
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
Norm Macdonald
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
Mark Rothko
Each year we have 30 to 40,000 tons of primitive material from comets and asteroids that lands on Earth, and this is about one particle per square meter per day. So during the course of our seven-year mission, there was more comet dust collected in your backyard than what we're bringing home.
Don Brownlee
People seem to marvel at how primitive it all seemed. But when you consider what life was like in Florida 30 or 40 years before, it's amazing how things progressed.
Virginia Jackson
It feels like a backcountry wilderness primitive campsite.
Michael Carr
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
Morton Feldman
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
Tony Bennett
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