Distillation Quotes

22 quotes by 19 authors

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making… — Thomas Jefferson
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not… — Edward Steichen
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Linda Gregerson
Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his… — James Tabor
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story. — Chip Kidd
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading… — Benjamin Haydon
I hear what many of you are saying: We donâ€™t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the… — Jessica Zafra
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.… — Don DeLillo
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very… — Will Cotton
History: A distillation of rumor. — Thomas Carlyle
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a… — Charles de Lint
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. — Ralph Fiennes
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old.… — Yukio Mishima
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really… — Grant Morrison
Civilization begins with distillation — William Faulkner
Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
History is the distillation of rumour. — Thomas Carlyle
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make… — Mark Haddon

Who Wrote These Distillation Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 22 Distillation Quotes as follows: