Distils Quotes

#1. Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

Richard Crashaw

#2. If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.

Judith Thurman

#3. Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

Jerry Coleman

#4. Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Plato

#5. They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car, and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower!

John Green

#6. Rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes. This proposition is supported by much evidence from research on pigeons, rats, humans, and other animals.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Sojourner Truth

#8. The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

Frederick Buechner

#9. He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep - I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#10. A range of reasons to go with a range of individuals, my dear: some wish to restore lost glories, some wish to alter the status quo, some wish to bring harm to others. In my case I do it for the most personal of reasons - because I like it and because I can.

Andy Chambers

#11. Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

Melissa Etheridge

#12. Go on home and knit socks, darling,

Raymond Chandler

#13. I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman.

Bobby Hull

#14. I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

Nikola Tesla

#15. But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

Ron D. Burton

#16. Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#17. A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.

Ricky Gervais