Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophilus London

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

Mikhail Bakunin

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Paul Auster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Nadine Gordimer

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

R. D. Laing

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Harold B. Lee

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

Theodore Roosevelt

the one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight. . . It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Jim Chapman

A piano is really essential for a playhouse and this is a good one.

Jenny Shipley

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

John Ashcroft

This is not the end of the journey. This is an important set of first steps essential to the journey's end, but not sufficient to get us there.

Giovanni Trapattoni

A positive result is essential even if the season is young.

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor

They gave so much to Liverpool. The exhibition will tell the essential story of the port and the people who made it great.

Gary Bauer

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Gao Xingjian

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

George III

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

George W. Bush

It's essential that we do what's right - not necessarily what appears to be immediately popular.

George Sanders

I am essential to the theater,

Jean Rhys

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

If fully a quarter of your people don't show up, you are going to have to do some serious juggling to make sure the essential services continue. We've been trying to figure out where we can get people to plug into these holes.

I could tell we had the essential pieces in the summer, and the kids have done everything I've asked. Some teams have a lot of goals, but our one goal is for the kids to be perfect practice players.

Jeff Jarvis

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

The U.N. is a good idea and an essential idea.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Romesh Gunesekera

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

At the Zayed Summit, His Majesty urged executing this project in the shortest period of time and providing all essential tools needed for its execution.

Michel Foucault

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

John Ruskin

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

Theodore Roosevelt

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

Michael Bell

Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.

Eric Kandel

I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're working with your own hands. There's essential satisfaction in running experiments.