Distilled Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

“That trip was like all my life, distilled: a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into the pouch…

— Ariel Levy

I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and…

— Eavan Boland

“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”

— Marc Norman

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

— Anonymous

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

— Ryan Eggold

“Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a…

— Robert Hall

I think there's something nice about a distilled sound.

— Melody Gardot

“the distilled spirits business is dominated by giant producers who run immensely productive facilities that produce complex, expensive chemical admixtures year after year. That’s…

— Adam Rogers

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

— Nicholas Culpeper

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

— Raymond Chandler

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few…

— Gretchen Rubin