Quotes about essence
essence ideas people
The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves. Stanley Kubrick
essence ideas quality
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality. Russell Baker
essence shells might
If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand. Haruki Murakami
essence transcendentalism divorced
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
essence giving mind
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Virginia Woolf
essence divinity mystery
Mystery is the essence of divinity Zora Neale Hurston
essence kabbalah spirituality
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. Sandra Bernhard
essence poetry delight
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. Samuel Johnson
essence people hot
Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool. Will Smith
essence littles way
The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things. Walter Bagehot
essence property subsistence
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. William Ames
essence giving spices
The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give. William Arthur Ward
essence soul done
Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul. Wavy Gravy
essence virtue fragrance
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. William Shenstone
essence civilization triumph
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former. Samuel P. Huntington
essence tragedy farce
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
essence missing spirit
We manifest from Spirit. When Spirit begins to rule in our lives, we can literally manifest or attract to us everything that we perceive to be missing. That's really the essence of it. Wayne Dyer
essence opposites humanity
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom. Vasily Grossman
essence names beats
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. Van Morrison
essence miracle needs
We need to see ourselves as basic miracles. Virginia Satir
essence agents four
Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate. Rod Serling
essence scripts credit
I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
essence form manifestation
Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate. Yves Klein
essence world prejudice
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt
essence age christianity
Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. Yann Martel
essence hip-hop community
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. Wyclef Jean
essence melody
Melody is the essence of music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
essence rights suffering
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. William O. Douglas
essence definitions libertarian
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed. Robert Anton Wilson
essence self answers
I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self. Rebecca Miller
essence paradise individual
We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood. Richard Rorty
essence observation indispensable
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable Robert Delaunay
essence rope walkers
The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps. T Bone Burnett