Quintessential Quotes

Quintessential Quote of the day

The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

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 I like to photograph.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

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 fundamentally changed.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

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 were super-substantiated.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.

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 have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

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 Southern woman.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.