Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

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.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Poetry is life distilled.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

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.

I was never interested in making cool distilled pure objects.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.