Quintessential Quotes
48 quotes by 47 authors
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.
— Mike Liut
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People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is…
— Garrett Hardin
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On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant…
— Corey Taylor
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The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are…
— Radhika Coomaraswamy
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Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother…
— Melissa Gilbert
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Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears…
— Barbara Hamby
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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
— Gerhard Richter
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When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
— Rachel Roy
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In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
— Bernard Lown
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Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so…
— Kenny Smith
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Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the…
— Janine Benyus
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The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John…
— George Meyer
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Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is…
— Richard Tuttle
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It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with…
— Barry S. Strauss
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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I don't like quintessential certitude.
— Louise Bogan
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
— William Rounseville Alger
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We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from the sun and…
— John Friend
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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 to say? With…
— Dara Wier
Who Wrote These Quintessential Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 48 Quintessential Quotes, led by these top contributors: