(10 quotes found)
“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
“No, Virginia, there is no Auntie Mame, she is a distillation and a moonbeam and nothing more.”
Patrick Dennis
“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
“It went through a special process using distilled water and flash freezing so it froze clear.”
Wanda Bornn
“They were fantabulous. They were able to distill the kernel of hundreds of thousands of comments into coherent documents that the policymakers were able to access. It was government at its best.”
Chris Wood
“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
“the distilled essence of what we mean when we say invent.”
Carly Fiorina
