Quotes About Essence

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

Çevremdeki bütün nesneler benimle ayn? maddeden, yani bir çeÅŸit sakil ac?dan yap?lm??t?.

Tarih, var olmuÅŸ olan bir ÅŸeyden söz eder; oysa bir var olan baÅŸka bir var olan?n varoluÅŸunu hakl? ç?karamaz.

Existence precedes essence.

Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be—and behind them . . . there is nothing.

At one point, Roquentin realizes that the seat he is on is a seat only by name: "it could just as well be a dead donkey. . . . Things are divorced from their names. They are there, grotesque, headstrong, gigantic, and it seems ridiculous to call them seats or say anything at all about them: I am in the midst of things, nameless things.

Ah, Young One," he said, holding up the box. "I have brought you a riddle: What is the essence of the moment but as fleeting as the wind?" "All that lives, Master," I said. "Plus, whatever is in the box." He beamed at me and opened the lid. "Snatch the cannoli, Grasshopper," he said, and I did. Over

Father Mike was popular with the church widows. They liked to crowd around him, offering him cookies and bathing in his beatific essence. Part of this essence came from Father Mike's perfect contentment at being five foot four. His shortness had a charitable aspect to it, as though he had given away his height.

The change you seek isn't out there somewhere in space. The change comes from within you. When you bring a deliberate awareness to your daily tasks – especially the most mundane of them – you've changed the whole complexion of your day. In fact, you've transformed the essence of your very being.

Its true power lies in its simplicity.

A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and

The air smelled like the inside of the cabins at the summer camp in Maine: must from the off-season, wet wood and mold, bug spray and sunscreen, sunshine and sweaty kids. The essence of summertime.

There was no style in nature.

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

You are what you are Which is what? I wondered

And I think every once in a while someone comes along who is a little more primitive than the rest of us, a little closer to our beginnings, a little more in touch with the stuff we're made of.

On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were.

Prayer doesn't work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.