Essence Quotes

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.