Best Distilled Quotes
73 Distilled quotes by 66 unique authors
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Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache…
— Louis L'Amour
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The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The…
— Unknown Author
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There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought a great deal about the…
— Robert Twigger
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New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have…
— Larry Dossey
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"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.
— Samuel Johnson
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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over…
— Carl Sagan
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
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My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s…
— George Saunders
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I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!
— Glenn Close
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I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
— Tom Verlaine
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Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the…
— Alberto Manguel
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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
— Nicholas Culpeper
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Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
— Rita Dove
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from…
— Carson McCullers
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America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
— Elon Musk
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
— Florence Nightingale
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The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz…
— Jerry Saltz
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The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the…
— Shelby Foote
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Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need…
— Terry Pratchett
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If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
— Huston Smith
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