Totem Quotes

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)
As the totem pole is tied to the lineality of the missionaries' Bible, so the igloo was made possible by the primus stove. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The evolution of earth-cult to sky-cult shifts woman into the nether realm. Her mysterious procreative powers and the resemblance of her rounded breasts, belly, and hips to earth's contours put her at the center of early symbolism. She was the model for the Great Mother figures who crowded the birth of religion worldwide. But the mother cults did not mean freedom for women. On the contrary [...] cult objects are prisoners of their own symbolic inflation. Every totem lives in taboo. View quote
Camille Paglia
But my Totem saw the shame; from his ridgepole shrine he came, And he told me in a vision of the night:- There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right! View quote
Rudyard Kipling
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. View quote
Denzel Washington
The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals -- when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior. View quote
Robert Butts
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. View quote
Mason Cooley
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. View quote
Bill Viola
Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be. View quote
Barry Manilow
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. View quote
Barry Zito
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man. (Beau Willimon)
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole. View quote
David Lindsay-Abaire
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. View quote
Jim Cramer
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. View quote
Rachel Nichols
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. View quote
Saul Steinberg
It is useless to tell the missionaries that Hindu sâdhanâ has nothing to do with buying a piece of land, building some stylised houses on it, exhibiting pretentious signboards, putting on a particular type of dress, and performing certain rituals in a particular way. Hindu sâdhanâ has been and remains a far deeper and difficult undertaking. It means being busy with one's own self rather than with saving others. It means clearing the dirt and dross within one's own self rather than calling on others to swear by a totem trotted out as the only saviour. It has no place for abominable superstitions like the atoning death of a so-called chirst. Above all, it is not consistent with double-talk-harbouring one motive in the heart and mouthing another. A counterfeit must remain a counterfeit, howsoever loudly and lavishly advertised. It is a sacrilege that those who are out to cheat and deceive should use the word "sâdhanâ" for their evil exercise. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional. View quote
Louise Bourgeois
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. View quote
Emily Carr
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. View quote
Drew Carey
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. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. (Andy Roddick)
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. View quote
Frank Moore Colby
My hope is that wiki becomes a totem for a way of interacting with people. View quote
Ward Cunningham