Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen. — Fritz Haber
I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of… — Jonathan Stroud
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be. — Carolyn Haywood
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated. — Liz Williams
The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live… — James Heckman
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite. — Samuel Freeman Miller
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac… — James Marsh
Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce. — S. Jay Olshansky
In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially… — Mitch Kapor
Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry. — Michael Keaton
Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is… — Shawn Amos
I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how… — James Howard Kunstler
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct… — Paul Di Filippo
Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know. — Mona Simpson
We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors;… — Simon McBurney
The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. — Piet Mondrian
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
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand. — Jim Lovell
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it… — Randy Newman
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of… — Elizabeth George
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. — Thomas Lynch
This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation… — Tom Tancredo
In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against… — John Abizaid
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. — Douglas Hurd
These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or… — Tom Allen

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