Distilled Quotes

73 quotes by 71 authors

Poetry is life distilled. — Gwendolyn Brooks
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. — Raymond Chandler
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is… — Zora Neale Hurston
The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things… — Daniel Roberts
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is… — Ovid
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not… — James K. Baxter
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However… — John Cheever
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a… — Virginia Woolf
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from… — Dirk Benedict
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. — Edward Albee
If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness. — Roland Merullo
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to… — Niyi Osundare
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. — Edward Lucas
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
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin
Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off.… — James M. Cain
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. — Martin Puryear
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. — Nicholas Culpeper

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