What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Constantin Brancusi

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
Harold Bloom

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Marilyn vos Savant

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
Marcel Marceau

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.
Lili Taylor

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
Bob Woodward

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.
Jude Law

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks