Distillations Podcast Quotes

#1. Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

George Pataki

#2. Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart
the moral nature
was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. I'd thought he was stars and then I'd thought he was a fox. I had thought I'd been alone, but I hadn't.

Beth Kephart

#4. For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

Rene Descartes

#5. My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

George R R Martin

#6. I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person's role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.

Christopher Rice

#7. I know how deep in the DNA musicals get because they're deep in my DNA.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#8. It's always pretty amazing to hear your own voice on the radio.

Daya

#9. Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

#10. I just bet Dad another thousand that you'll be back by this Christmas." - I

Whitney G.

#11. Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was obeying orders and trying not to be killed in any of the variety of horrible ways open to me.

Robertson Davies

#12. Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don't care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician's armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.

Paul Merton

#13. Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

Paul Auster

#14. I'd like my readers to feel they want to follow my characters off the page at the end of the book.

Vanessa Couchman

#15. I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.

Connie Chung