Essentially Quotes

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.