A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.

- Adam Sadowsky

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

- Brian Cox

The essence of the Way is detachment.

- Bodhidharma

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

- Bill Sienkiewicz

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

- Bill Cosby

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

- Benito Mussolini

Desire is the very essence of man.

- Baruch Spinoza

Desire is the essence of a man.

- Baruch Spinoza

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

- Antonio Machado

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

- Anne Edwards

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

- Alvar Aalto

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

- Avicenna

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

- Avicenna

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

- Andy Roddick

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

- Alistair Cooke

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

- Anne Rice

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

- Anton Chekhov

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

- Andy Serkis

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

- Andrea Bocelli