Words matter. These are the best Quintessential Quotes from famous people such as Heather Headley, Karan Johar, Madonna Ciccone, Sara Shepard, Pepa, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor’s wife.
Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom’s acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn’t like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that’s when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
Nowadays, everyone has a stylist – we were raw, wearing 8 ball jackets with kente hats and spandex. It’s a quintessential look that everyone loved.
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.
I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It’s probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.
When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
I always thought I’d be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn’t the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.
‘The Omen,’ ‘The Exorcist,’ those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
When I didn’t become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the ‘struggle’ period and became negative.
The real test of an anchor is when there’s a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
The ‘Next Generation’ and ‘Voyager’ are about even; I think ‘Voyager’ is mildly superior, although Picard is the quintessential captain.
I was your quintessential nerd in high school.
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
The initial response to ‘Yennai Arindhaal’ was that it didn’t have all the quintessential commercial elements, though I consider it as my most commercial venture.
Helena Bonham Carter – she’s so stunning. She’s really English, quintessential, elegant, charming.
As a little girl, I thought I’d like to get married on the beach. But I’m not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn’t think it’s French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I’m the quintessential French chef.
I’ve become the quintessential L.A. person, to an embarrassingly cliched level. I’m like, ‘Let’s go for a hike and get a green juice.’ That’s a perfect Saturday to me. I hate being that cliche but, damn, it’s also really nice.
Madhuri is the quintessential heroine of all time.
The moment you design the post of a HR manager in the police, your whole outlook towards your team changes. You designate an official to look after their health, their professional needs, their preparedness and motivation, which in most cases becomes quintessential.
I’ve always aspired to be the quintessential gentleman.
I think that, to a lot of people, they don’t like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people – the ones that like me, at least – see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.
I’ve always said that Miguel Pinero’s story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.
Thugs of Hindostan’ is the quintessential Hindi movie that we love to watch with our friends and families.
My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.
I always say that you get to see a ‘Malayali’ only in the Gulf. Even in Kerala, you will only see somebody from Kozhikode, Alappuzha, or Kollam, never a quintessential Malayali!
It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. ‘Johnny Gaddaar’ is the opposite of a thriller. In this case, the audience knows right from the outset what transpires and who the likely culprit is. It is a suspense caper.
The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it’s the first one I can truly remember.
I feel like if you’re a girl in the South, you know ‘Gone with the Wind’ better than anything. Scarlett O’Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.
As many have noted, Donald Trump’s presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
‘Showboat’ is the quintessential family show.
Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport – not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.
I have no qualms working on a quintessential Bollywood film, but I can’t work on mindless no-brainers. I have too much self-respect for that.
One quintessential moment in time is when you’re 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That’s the convergence.
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled.
