Captures The Essence Quotes

#1. Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

Stephen Leacock

#2. Writing does what physicists cannot: it freezes time; captures the essence of the moment, even as it passes away. Writing says, we were here; that we breathed and felt and saw and made mistakes and learned from them.

L. E. Henderson

#3. David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Brad Listi

#4. We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.

Tom Wujec

#5. The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

Barry Eisler

#6. It'd hardly be worth having a brother at all, if you couldn't smack him in the head every once in a while.

Lois Greiman

#7. Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all.

Julie Kagawa

#8. There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Lee Iacocca

#9. And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.

Wendell Berry

#10. Flower petals in the breeze look like a butterfly flapping its wings. My love for you takes flight like a white orchid blushing pink.

Jarod Kintz

#11. To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

Peter Turchi

#12. My background is in improv and writing.

Paul Scheer

#13. Oscar Otero Aguilar, 21, of Mexico City, Mexico, accidentally shot himself in the head while posing for a "selfie" with a loaded gun.

Benjamin Burrow

#14. Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

Brooke Harris

#15. Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

Keith Devlin

#16. Remember I'm from Dauphine Street. We useta put the kitchen chairs out on the banquette and set there till midnight sometimes waiting for the house to cool off. And the things the people down here say! Lord.

John Kennedy Toole

#17. Only that which happens is possible.

Franz Kafka

#18. A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

Paul Theroux