(556 quotes found)
“I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”
Carson McCullers
“The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights”
William Blackstone
“I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.”
Brandon Boyd
“Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.”
William Osler
“Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.”
Carl Levin
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
Madame de Stael
“How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees”
Isaac Babel
“There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.”
Liberty Hyde Bailey
“Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.”
Carl Andre
“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
William Blake
