“No, Virginia, there is no Auntie Mame, she is a distillation and a moonbeam and nothing more.”
Patrick Dennis
“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
“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
Raymond Chandler
“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”
John Cheever
“The supplies of crude and distilled products appear sufficient to carry the market through the winter.”
Mike Fitzpatrick
“Voodoo is not some kind of black magic cult. It's the distillation of very profound religious ideas that came over during the tragic era of slavery.”
Wade Davis
