Quintessential Quotes

48 Quintessential quotes by 45 unique authors

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger
The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net. — Unknown Author
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
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
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are… — Unknown Author
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
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 Hambly
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter
When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe. — Rachel Roy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't like quintessential certitude. — Louise Bogan
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger
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
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
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. — Stephen Jay Gould
The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso. — Ernesto Illy
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that… — Michael Kenna
[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for… — Robert Klein
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the… — William Rounseville Alger

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