Essence Magazine Quotes

#1. Everyone Doesn't Deserve A Front Seat In Your Life, Former "Editor In Chief, Susan Taylor Essence Magazine

Beverly Montgomery

#2. She had never given much thought to the devil for she felt that religion was essentially for those people who didn't have the brains to avoid evil without it.

Flannery O'Connor

#3. Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.

Anthony Liccione

#4. I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

Jonathan Meades

#5. When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

Neil Strauss

#6. For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Mary Webb

#7. The Scorpion?
The Grasshopper?
Which way will she go?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#8. Late afternoon, it was I not the void that changed.

Jack Kerouac

#9. In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

David Ogden Stiers

#10. In the realm of love and sex, it's girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

#11. Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

Li Keqiang

#12. There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer [read bond trader] will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on.

Michael Lewis

#13. Meditation is not something that you can "do"; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However,

Sogyal Rinpoche

#14. The guy's alone and apart - that's the message.'
'Then perhaps it's what we all feel at times - the hell of alienation'
'Maybe, or what some of us see as the inevitable fall from grace,

Robert Sims

#15. Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.

Katherine Center