Antiessentialist Quotes & Sayings

I'm just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it's amazing to be able to shoot this stuff. — Adam McKay

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status. — Stephen Jay Gould

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. — Vincent Schiavelli

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. — Epictetus

You need somethin' from me, baby? — Madeline Sheehan

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues. — George Herbert

When I met you, my first thought was you were very pretty, great fuckin' eyes, but not my type. High-class which means high maintenance. Then you got pissed and that was it. Even if you hadn't been in that ditch, now you'd still be in my bed. So if you think this attitude is a turn off, baby you're wrong. — Kristen Ashley

She's shed her skins
and plasma jeans, gets around in 2K
retro gear like the frock she wears today;
a loose, white elegy to what's been lost.
Already she's flowing back into herself
the way a river flows to fill a creek bed.
But some hard layer has washed away
and left her softer, more interested. — Lisa Jacobson

Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future. — Daniel Gordis

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. — Robert Orben

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer. — Brendon Burchard

Avoid creating bad feelings or wasting our time?" It's interesting to watch what happens when people are presented with and questions after being stuck with Fool's Choices. Their faces become reflective, their eyes open wider, and they begin to think. With surprising regularity, when people are asked: "Is it possible that there's a way to accomplish both?" they acknowledge that there very well may be. — Kerry Patterson

Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment. — Brian Krzanich

Most things that are politically right are morally wrong — Lupe Fiasco

Make up, like lies, needed to be simple in order to be effective. — G.A. Matiasz