Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Poetry is life distilled.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.
Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.
Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that you perhaps only touched on earlier.
A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!
What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I could make a success there, I could even be perhaps accepted into it, but I would never feel it was my place. It's the summit of something else. It's distilled Englishness.
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.