Distill Quotes

26 Distill quotes by 26 unique authors

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
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety. — Benjamin Graham
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
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
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
Control, edit and distill. — Van Day Truex
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. — Robertson Davies
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
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
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
Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? — Marc Chagall
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
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
Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill. — J. D. McClatchy
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
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I love you, Minerva. I love that you believe in me no matter what. I love how you take whatever you see and distill it… — Sabrina Jeffries
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do:… — Ray Bradbury
So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual… — John Sexton
For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make… — Jon Stewart

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