Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, ‘Ow, I gotta get out of the way,’ but not enough to say, ‘I quit.’
All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.
The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don’t do a very good job.
The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color!
I respect Malayalam films the same way I respect Bengali films. I think Malayalam films have not compromised on the essence and have kept their own statement and are coming up with very good themes.
Busking is the essence of what I do. It’s made everything possible.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
The American middle class’s faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices.
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today’s generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
The essence of good government is trust.
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.
Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.
A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It’s everyone in their place.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn’t cry like that.
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people’s, then that must feel pretty good.
Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.
Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don’t listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.
Funnily enough, I did a play called ‘Jumpy’ on the West End before I did ‘Divergent,’ and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and… he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
There’s this great panel – I forget what the actual comic is – of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and eating some Chinese takeout. It’s like, that’s the essence of ‘Spider-Man.’
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Power is the essence of the Christian witness.
If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.
Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form – a very learnable art form.
Football is losing its essence: people talk about celebrations instead of goals.
I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.
People don’t get through to the essence of you right away – it’s always the famous ‘girl’ or the famous ‘girlfriend’. I’d rather be known for myself.
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off… As my friend Julius Lester says, ‘A picture book is the essence of an experience.’
When we reach out to assist the least of Heavenly Father’s children, we do it unto Him. That is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
I really like stews: everything in a bowl boiled down right to its essence.
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
Lucknow is a bustling city with warm, friendly people. ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ is the essence of this city.
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. ‘Field of Dreams,’ however, caught the spirit and essence of ‘Shoeless Joe’ while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there’s a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it’s supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn’t find exactly that.
The United Nations should serve as a forum to address our common challenges. And it must also be a space to generate solutions for mutual benefit. This is the very essence of what the United Nations is about. We must position the multilateral system to better serve our people and deliver on their aspirations.
I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That’s because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.
For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.
Did Robert De Niro actually look like Al Capone in ‘The Untouchables?’ Or did Van Kilmer look like Jim Morrison in ‘The Doors?’ No. It’s the core, the essence of the personality that matters.
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
I believe in highlighting the ‘greatness’ that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.
Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.
It’s very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you’ll think they’re right for a role. There’s an essence to a person.
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it’s a complete body of work. It’s not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
