Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jasper Fforde

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

Isabelle Eberhardt

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.

Guy Kawasaki

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Guy Kawasaki

The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.

Graeme Murphy

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

In essence what we're doing is taking the folks who would have formerly been called sporadic (environmental), and testing how important genetic influences are...and we're finding genetic influences are tremendously important.

In essence the homeowner can still end up getting zero.

In essence it was a reprieve from Wednesday.

Nick Hanauer

I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all - I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Shawn Ashmore

I honestly don't feel that this story has been sugar-coated. Obviously you're telling the story of a hero . . . but it stays true to the essence of the run.

Shawn Ashmore

I honestly don't feel that this story has been sugar-coated, ... Obviously you're telling the story of a hero . . . but it stays true to the essence of the run.

Jack LaLanne

The essence of decay is inactivity.

J. I. Packer

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

It's a question of whose ox is being gored. But in essence it is up to the US importer now.

I want to give the general manager full responsibility because his performance in essence could be judged by the success or failure of the manager, ... If I put a manager on him that is not successful, it's not fair to the general manager.

Mao Zedong

When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing.

Madeleine L'Engle

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Pope Benedict XVI

By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

Pope Benedict XVI

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

Piet Mondrian

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

Eknath Easwaran

Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.

Jimmy Reid

Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society.

Lisa Alther

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Lili Taylor

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Minor White

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

Pearl S. Buck

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?