I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Once he left the Haywood out for her with a page number on a scrap of paper, and she opened the book… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire.… — James Tabor Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
