Essay Quotes

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? - Brian Ferneyhough

When reading an essay, it's immediately obvious if the student put a lot of thought into it. It should reveal something about the person to know the student better since we often don't meet them. - Justin Doty

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else. - Leonard Nimoy

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. - Barbara Kingsolver

We've got our timing spectacularly wrong on one or two things. We did a cover story called 'The End of War', the week they started bombing Kosovo. In our last issue we had an essay on the end of English cricket. - Philip Goodhart

We're not really looking at how the essay is written. We're looking for someone's essay that appeals to us, who wants to be in the florist shop business and wants to learn. - Wendy DeSousa

We're eyeballing the first line ... Something that gets an emotional response out of one of the counselors is going to help ... if you're reading 30 or 40 or 50 applications in one day and one of the essays made you cry, or touched you, that's a person you're going to fight for. - Jessica Eads

We were very pleased with all the entries, but the top essays really seemed to have an outstanding quality to them. - Diane Davis