Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!

Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Distilled Quotes

Distilled Definition  
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Robert Hall

Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time.
Stan Jones

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
Martin Puryear

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
Tom Verlaine

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove

Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
Anne Edwards

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Nicholas Culpeper

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.
Carson McCullers

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin

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

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






Quotes   Bookmark and Share     Copyright 2009 BrainyMedia.com