Distillation Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “History is the distillation of rumour.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distillation History Inspirational Love Rumours
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
Sometimes, history sneaks up on you. And sometimes you know it's coming. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Once he left the Haywood out for her with a page number on a scrap of paper, and she opened the book to recipes… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
