Primitive Urge Quotes

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any domestic establishment.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."

How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

If we're a natural man, we're attracted to a woman. You are our natural partner in the act of procreation. Now there's a time and a place for everything, but when a fine-looking woman, with a fine-looking form walks down the street, a man could be working with a jackhammer, and when he spies that woman, he'll watch her as she walks. What kind of thought comes up in your mind? You don't say, "Oh, what a great creature." Like a dog you may say, "Man, I'd sure like to have some of that!" That's not what you want.

Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.