Quotes About Essence

I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the task and possibilities which are inherently its own. Architecture is not a vehicle or a symbol for things that do not belong to its essence. In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings, and speak its own language.

Then the true essence of the place came to him,

Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

A essência do engano não é a mentira que se diz, mas as verdades que se contam para a apoiar.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

The body will fail you, the mind will deceive you, but the spirit is the true essence of the Individual.

Words have little value in the kingdom of essential things. They're just decorations on the feelings too deep for us to put into syllables.

my religion was but a fragrance.

Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

What I love about piano and vocal is it's incredibly pure, and it gets down to the essence of the song because you're not distracted by an orchestra. When it's just a piano and a voice, it's about the purity of singing the song.

'Circuital' was just so much about us as a band. We captured every song live, including the main vocal. That is probably my favorite My Morning Jacket record because it's really the essence of us being us. The solo record is just a completely different essence of just me trying to figure out stuff.

Water is truly the seed of life.

There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

I find that wherever I go, people are hungering to get back to basics.

If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.