Top 32 Quotes About Distillation

#1. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future

Amitav Ghosh

#2. History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, "a distillation of rumor," or, as Napoleon said, "a set of lies generally agreed upon

James Alexander Thom

#4. How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

Madeleine Thien

#5. ...I'm not saying simple code takes less time to write. You'd think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn't an accretion of code, it's a distillation of it.

Robert Nystrom

#6. We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.

Roustam Tariko

#7. You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

Ralph Fiennes

#8. Civilization begins with distillation

William Faulkner

#9. It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. William Faulkner is supposed to have said, "Civilization begins with distillation," but I'd push even further -- beyond just distilled spirits to wine, beer, mead, sake ... all of it. Booze is civilization in a glass.

Adam Rogers

#11. History: A distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Diane Ackerman

#13. A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Chip Kidd

#14. I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice. The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention.

Jenny Offill

#15. It's a distillation of all I know about writing: short-story writing, screenwriting, journalism - everything. There is no future in the novel, so far as I can see. I'm trying to show where writing is going to be. I may not get there, but I will point the way." In

Gerald Clarke

#16. The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

Jennifer Dunning

#17. She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Frank Herbert

#18. History is the distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

#19. I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at writing poetry. I mean, the distillation, I think, is hard for me, but I love poetry.

Jesmyn Ward

#20. There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.

Will Cotton

#21. My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

Mark Haddon

#22. Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#23. Then, were not summer's distillation left
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.
But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

William Shakespeare

#24. The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

Edward Steichen

#25. We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love. That, it seems to me, is the distillation of The Phenomenon of Man.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#26. A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

Shomei Tomatsu

#27. Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

Sylvia Earle

#28. Nothing else matters much ... not wealth, nor learning, nor even health ... without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#29. I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

Thomas Jefferson

#30. I stare at him in awe. "That was an amazing amount of distillation."
"Yeah, well, I'm an amazing distiller.

Lauren Barnholdt

#31. Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

Denise Fleming

#32. The five types of content curation...54 aggregation distillation elevation mashups chronology

Steven Rosenbaum

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