Top 100 Essentially Quotes
#1. [James] Joyce ... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized ...
Tom Stoppard
#2. I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
Nora Ephron
#3. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?
Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.
Ellen Ullman
#4. Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
Bruce Lee
#5. People are essentially red meat. They are.
Max Cannon
#6. I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
Molly Crabapple
#7. I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.
Stephen Sondheim
#8. I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
Brian Eno
#9. This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that.
Eckhart Tolle
#10. Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.
Terence McKenna
#11. Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative - essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story - swept candidate Obama into the presidency.
Cynthia P. Schneider
#12. My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.
George Brecht
#13. There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
Neel Burton
#14. [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject
Martin Luther
#15. All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
Charles Fillmore
#16. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
#17. Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?
Robert Muller
#18. Thinking about averting plane crashes in 1935, or stopping infections of central lines in 2003, or rescuing drowning victims today, I realized that the key problem in each instance was essentially a simple one, despite the number of contributing factors.
Atul Gawande
#19. It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.
Tony Goldwyn
#20. The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely obliterated so that we could believe that we were living on virgin soil.
Richard Rodriguez
#21. I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#22. I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.
Kenneth Branagh
#23. I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#24. Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
W.G. Sebald
#25. Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
Stephen Leacock
#26. Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
Arthur Wesley Dow
#28. Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.
Alison Lurie
#29. You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K.d. Lang
#30. Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
Philip Johnson
#31. Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Gustave Courbet
#32. Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.
Frederick C. Beiser
#33. This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Jung
#34. Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.
Aphex Twin
#35. In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature.
Roger Caillois
#36. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there, because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Bangor,
Stephen King
#37. The sex curriculum will be essentially by taught by the local gay community.
Michele Bachmann
#38. This is a psychofield, a thoughtspace, essentially unstable. While most people conceptualise thinking as this straightforward linear thing, I see ideas spreading out into alternatives before one is selected. In this place every notion can potentially become reality.
Tade Thompson
#39. Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
Ibn Khaldun
#40. Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.
Eve Ensler
#41. Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#42. What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
Mindy Kaling
#43. The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
Jim Parsons
#44. The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
Betty Buckley
#45. Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
George Santayana
#46. I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.
Will Ferrell
#47. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.
T.C. Boyle
#48. The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
Lionel Shriver
#49. I've spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
Brian Greene
#50. Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.
Joel Fuhrman
#51. She couldn't walk away from him again. Her heart couldn't take it and she didn't think his could either. When she'd left him, it had been like cutting off a limb. And she had, essentially. Because Ian was a part of her, embedded in her skin, her soul.
Katie Reus
#53. Mars is essentially in the same orbit ... somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.
Dan Quayle
#54. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#55. Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.
Sarah J. Buckley
#57. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.
Jonathan Ive
#58. Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
Brian K. Vaughan
#59. The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.
Robert Sternberg
#60. Life itself moves so fast and is so mystical we often easily slip into a force-fed trance that enables us to do only a couple of basic actions, which is essentially to survive and spectate.
K. Conley
#61. Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
Al Alvarez
#62. Critics of the system say they want to get enough people involved to dilute the handful of wealthy donors and big-money groups who are essentially drowning out everybody else.
Anonymous
#63. John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
Warren Buffett
#64. I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.
Joan Didion
#65. The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
Joseph Goebbels
#66. Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
George Santayana
#67. Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
Eric Holder
#68. Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
Mukesh Ambani
#69. If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
Beck
#70. Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Anthony Powell
#71. I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
Rashid Johnson
#72. You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.
Fred Alan Wolf
#73. There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.
Daniel Tammet
#74. To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity
be it art, music, literature, or science
is the way it enriches our lives.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#75. Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's what the neocortical column looks like.
Henry Markram
#76. Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
Robert H. Schuller
#77. Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
Biz Stone
#78. Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships
John M. Gottman
#79. Sometimes people are like, 'Hey, you played Dean Thomas!' and I'm like, 'Wow, you actually know!' It kind of shocks me because when I think about movies I love, and if I saw someone who essentially did what I did in Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't recognize them walking down the street.
Alfred Enoch
#80. We have a bubbling successful melting pot in this country so long as the ingredients are essentially European.
Jared Taylor
#81. Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Muhammad Iqbal
#82. Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
St. Vincent
#83. Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
#84. I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.
Guy Murchie
#85. Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
Lou Dorfsman
#86. Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.
Jack Nicklaus
#87. Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.
Angeles Arrien
#88. I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home.
Brett Dalton
#89. Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now.
Warren Ellis
#90. But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
Tony Blair
#91. Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
Joseph Campbell
#92. The identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute
Amartya Sen
#93. I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation ... I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.
Ron Paul
#94. I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
Flannery O'Connor
#95. The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
#96. All love songs, no matter how eloquent or crude, ornamented or plain, in whatever language they are sung, say essentially the same thing. All love stories have but one meaning.
Lee Siegel
#97. I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
Judy Holliday
#98. The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.
Fredric Jameson
#99. I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.
Charisma Carpenter
#100. We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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