Quintessential Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

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 mÃ©lange 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
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. — Gail Simmons
My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR,… — Tavis Smiley
I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential… — Leslie Bibb
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of… — Gustav Heinemann
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,… — Hayden Carruth
I was your quintessential nerd in high school. — Neal Boortz
I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman. — Taylor Momsen
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We… — Jacques Pepin
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do. — Monica Crowley
The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and… — Martin Jacques
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish. — Ben Elliot
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory.… — James Gleick
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other… — John O'Keefe

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