Essentially Quotes · Page 3

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

— Kathryn Schulz

We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out.

— Dave Anthony

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

— Stephen Hawking

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

— Sarah McLachlan

Standup is essentially part of your personality with the volume turned up.

— Tom Segura

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

— George Robinson

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

— Barbra Streisand

That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

— D.J. Cotrona

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

— Jon Hopkins

It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

— Alice Roberts

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

— George Santayana

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

— Reggie Watts

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over…

— Evangeline Lilly

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

— Curt Smith

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke,…

— Simon Winchester

We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are…

— Simon McBurney

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My…

— Michelle Gagnon

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways…

— Reggie Watts

'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well…

— John Romaniello

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge…

— Miguel Nicolelis

I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly…

— Michael Porter

Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think…

— Mordicai Gerstein

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

— Robert Sternberg

All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in.

— Sydney Pollack

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

— Howard Shore

I'm essentially a traveller. I love to do many things.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

— Stephanie Corneliussen

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

— Mona Simpson

If you're told to 'Man up,' you're essentially being told that being feminine is lesser.

— Oliver Stark

Essentially, what QAnon was - what the Q poster was doing - was impersonating a federal agent.

— Fredrick Brennan

I'm essentially starting at the bottom of the food chain and playing the small clubs and intimate shows.

— Jax Jones

I once had a job where I was essentially a fundraiser assistant. It was a volunteer thing I was doing, and I…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially…

— Lee Tamahori

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure…

— Barry Diller

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback…

— Barry Eisler

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a…

— Carre Otis

I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche…

— Zayn Malik