Top 129 Quintessential Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo.

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

When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

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

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

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

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

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

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

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

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

Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

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

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

The love in the old days had a certain grace, quintessential feel to it. Now everybody is busy in their phones.

Nowadays, everyone has a stylist - we were raw, wearing 8 ball jackets with kente hats and spandex. It's a quintessential look that everyone loved.

'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.

The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.

Madhuri is the quintessential heroine of all time.

I make work that tries to sort of connect with something really, really familiar. I don't try to make work that's original. I try to make work that's quintessential. That's what I mean about the familiar. It operates with stuff that people already know or information that they already have and I try to just use that. Quintessential means like the perfect minimalist sculptor.

I have no qualms working on a quintessential Bollywood film, but I can't work on mindless no-brainers. I have too much self-respect for that.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.

I'm cool under pressure. Cool as a cucumber, actually, eerily so. My friends and family comment on it. I think I get it from my father, the quintessential smooth operator.

Thugs of Hindostan' is the quintessential Hindi movie that we love to watch with our friends and families.

Firing the prosecutor who's about to get you or your campaign is kind of quintessential obstruction of justice.

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.

For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much.

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

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

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

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.

President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

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 biases in the selection of the laureates.

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.

I'm not your quintessential liberal.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

I've always aspired to be the quintessential gentleman.

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

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 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.

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

The initial response to 'Yennai Arindhaal' was that it didn't have all the quintessential commercial elements, though I consider it as my most commercial venture.

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

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

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

The 'Next Generation' and 'Voyager' are about even; I think 'Voyager' is mildly superior, although Picard is the quintessential captain.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

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

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.

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

Helena Bonham Carter - she's so stunning. She's really English, quintessential, elegant, charming.