(556 quotes found)
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer”
D.H. Lawrence
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
Charlie Chaplin
“I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.”
Walter Cronkite
“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state”
Cardinal Richelieu
“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.”
David Mamet
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing”
Mark Twain
“Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Government is essentially immoral.”
Herbert Spencer
“Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.”
Zubin Mehta
