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Tag Name "Quintessential" (43)

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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
William Rounseville Alger
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I always think of Popeye and Barney Google as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
Bill Watterson
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War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
Gustav Heinemann
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[My] dream writers room: 'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural.
Dick Wolf
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The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.
Mike Liut
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I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.
Roger Corman
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The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.
Ernesto Illy
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I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.
Lou Reed
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In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
Bernard Lown
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Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
Stephen Jay Gould
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I was your quintessential nerd in high school.
Neal Boortz
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My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.
Joshua Mohr
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Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.
Richard Tuttle
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The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
Evelyn Waugh
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I don't like quintessential certitude.
Louise Bogan
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
Sara Shepard
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I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.
Morgan Freeman
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The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be.
David Gelernter
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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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