Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Rodney Carrington

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

Rod Serling

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

William Arthur Ward

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

William Hazlitt

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Wyclef Jean

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody is the essence of music.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Samuel Beckett

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

Pema Chodron

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

Haruki Murakami

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Henry James

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Yiddish Proverbs

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

David Hume

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

Marc Berman

We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Vaughn

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

W. H. Auden

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Robin McKinley

...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

Saint Augustine

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

Wilma Mankiller

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

Rhonda Byrne

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

Rick Yancey

And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.