Quintessential Quotes

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

— Rachel Roy

Madhuri is the quintessential heroine of all time.

— Huma Qureshi

I don't like quintessential certitude.

— Louise Bogan

The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.

— Ernesto Illy

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same…

— Joshua Mohr

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

— Gail Simmons

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

— Mark Kozelek

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

— Stephen Jay Gould

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

— Bell Hooks

As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had…

— Mandy Moore

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

— Dick Wolf

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people…

— Robbie Williams

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not…

— Anant Agarwal

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go…

— Marshall Allman

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in…

— Gustav Heinemann

For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people…

— Karina Longworth

David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for…

— Brooke Fraser

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together…

— Radhika Coomaraswamy

Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He…

— Hayden Carruth

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the…

— Edward Snowden

Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks…

— Janine Benyus

The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice…

— Hal Rothman

With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left…

— Dara Wier

I make work that tries to sort of connect with something really, really familiar. I don't try to make work that's original.…

— Tony Tasset

The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was…

— George Meyer

Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of…

— Barbara Hamby

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

— John Wesley

The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

— Mike Liut

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

— Bill Watterson

President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.

— Monica Crowley

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

— John Berger

Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.

— Gina Barreca

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

— Taylor Momsen

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

— Fede Alvarez

'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

— Sara Shepard

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

— Gerhard Richter

[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the…

— Robert Klein

Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense…

— Karan Johar