Primal Quotes

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

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.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

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

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.