Words matter. These are the best Distilled Quotes from famous people such as Jamie Lee Curtis, Florence Nightingale, Tom Verlaine, Nicholas Culpeper, Julian Bream, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that you perhaps only touched on earlier.
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 the convolutions of the intellect.
Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.
A play is fiction – and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I could make a success there, I could even be perhaps accepted into it, but I would never feel it was my place. It’s the summit of something else. It’s distilled Englishness.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Let’s just get this out of the way: Most grocery store vinegars taste terrible. They’re made from low-quality wine (or other alcohol), which gives them a flavor that’s barely more nuanced than the chewing-on-metal taste of distilled vinegar.
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents – judges’ decisions – rather than statutes, baseball’s codes are the game’s distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.
A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up – sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.
