#essence

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

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. ↗

— William Shenstone

#exposed #fragrance #like #lose #their

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Huston Smith

#both #consists #drawing #essence #every

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different. ↗

— Huston Smith

#essence #however #kernel #only #protective

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

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#acting #creative #essence #frees #getting

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

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#loneliness #nixon #richard #richard nixon

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how. ↗

— Bryana Johnson

#free-verse #hamlet #poetry-life #shakespeare #the-quintessence-of-dust