Essentially Quotes

973 quotes by 803 authors

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. — Mel Brooks
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day. — Dan Brown
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story… — Bill Bryson
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. — Edmund Burke
Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian… — Drew Carey
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… — Charisma Carpenter
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. — Alexis Carrel
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access… — Deepak Chopra
Essentially what photography is is life lit up. — Sam Abell
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. — Diane Arbus
I believe the Visa Waiver Program, it essentially is the soft underbelly of the visa system. Now we have 35 countries in it. We have… — Dianne Feinstein
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. — Piet Mondrian
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
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… — Lou Dorfsman
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's… — Michel Foucault
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. — Thomas Merton
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… — Erich Fromm
The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand. — Jim Lovell
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster

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