Distill Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things…
— Beck
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Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.
— Benjamin Graham
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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick…
— Harry Houdini
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Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.
— Martina Navratilova
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Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of…
— Carol Muske-Dukes
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Control, edit and distill.
— Van Day Truex
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Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
— Robertson Davies
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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man.…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a…
— Al Hirschfeld
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Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill…
— Terry Goodkind
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Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?
— Marc Chagall
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If you could distill this down to a single principle its that the best marketers in the world know MARKETS first and foremost, and secondly…
— Perry Marshall
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any…
— Bo Burnham
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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
— J. D. McClatchy
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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
— William Shakespeare
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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind…
— Dante Alighieri
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Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or…
— Daniel Pennac
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And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of…
— Alan Moore
Who Wrote These Distill Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 26 Distill Quotes, led by these top contributors: