#essence

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#essence #freedom #individual

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#essence #great #need #own #poetry

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

#essence #know #you

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#essence #fire #spiritual

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.' ↗

— William Shatner

#enough #essence #fact #full #get

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#essence #fellow #fellow creatures #hate #indifferent

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. ↗

— Paul Simon

#almost #anything #art #care #change

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#acting #curious #essence #i #interested

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#captures #essence #form #novel #other

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea