#essential

Friendship is essentially a partnership. ↗

— Aristotle

#friendship #partnership

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#bizarre #body #child #children #cultures

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#am #because #case #dull #essentially

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. ↗

— Russell Banks

#ancient #been #community #embrace #enough

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#am #around #essential #face #i

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. ↗

— George P. Baker

#between #clever #comedy #depends #difference

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#choose #conferences #could #delegates #essential

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives