Distilled Quotes
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
Tom Verlaine
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
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
Yehudi Menuhin
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
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
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
Ovid