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“I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in one sentence; I am more for the one sentence. I am more for the essence. It's like how you need a truckload of roses to extract one drop of rose oil; I don't want to bother with the truckload of roses because I would rather walk away with the drop of rose oil. So in my mind, I have written two hundred books. Why? Because I have with me two hundred vials with one drop of essence in each!”

Writing Reading Books Essence Words Writers On Writing Writing Books Gist Rose Oil Precious Oil

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”

Long Whole Found Wish Poor Known Principles Rich Security Paper Aim Property Possession Secure Range Extensions Papers Gist

Author:John Ruskin

“Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.”

Said Speak President Nature Threat Terrorist Isis Mayors Speak The Truth Gist

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.”

Writing Trying Ends Stories Plot Impatient Outlines Paragraph Gist

Author:Pamela Clare

“The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As lousy as the mass media may be, there was enough news about what was transpiring, year after year, to get the gist of what was happening... No American can truthfully say that they could not find out what was going on.”

Years May Has Beens Enough Government Secret Generations Middle Media News Mass Happenings Eastern Wrath Grapes Mass Media American Government Gist

Author:Nicholas von Hoffman

“Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.”

Enough Moments Hands Kids Four Materials Chess Prose Waking Continents Bookstores Fischer Gist

Author:Ronald Gross

“The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass of water. And the brain likes hierarchy. Starting with general concepts naturally leads to explaining information in a hierarchical fashion. You have to do the general idea first. And then you will see that 40 percent improvement in understanding.”

“There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.”

People Art Love Is Grew Scene Grew Up Diverse Gist

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.”

Ifs Together Figures Planets Salvation Working Together Capability Embodiment Gist

Author:Matt Corby

“The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.”

Evil Known Written Divine Expected Good And Evil Volition Gist

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men tend to recall the gist aspects of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their right hemisphere to do the processing.”

Men Left Aspect Details Recalls Stimulus Competent Processing Hemisphere Gist

Author:John Medina

“I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself... I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person.”

Ifs Want Persons Said I Can Remember Normal Google Family And Friends Gist

Author:Leona Lewis

“Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”

Long Political Politics Wish Poor Known Rich Property Gist

Author:John Ruskin

“I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Running Waiting Interesting Audience Theater Tweet Good Story Gist

Author:Steven Spielberg

“If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.”

People Ifs Knows Want Doe Different Bigs Might Deals Nice Groups Halls Big Deal Certificates Gist

Author:John Bytheway

“Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?”

Men Want Form Fun Love Is Lord Sun Moon Ten Delight Bored Novelty Women Want Monogamy Gist Moon And Sun

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.”

Mind Firsts Middle Picks Caught Sentences Rhythm Clock Subconscious Strokes Lingering Gist

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.”

Said Speculation Gist

Book:Rhialto the Marvellous

Source: Rhialto the Marvellous

“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”

People Needs Humans Two Important Forever Cutting Missing Important Things Sentences Contradicting Qualifying Gist

Author:Richard Ford

“Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.”

Ifs Looks Hard Enough Bigs Given Enjoy Water Behinds Cold Fit Enjoyed Feminine Forgiven Stubborn Old Fashioned Lectures Remarks Buckets Cold Water Sass Gist

Author:Anne Bishop

“Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.”

Men Has Beens Doubt Notes Margins Gist

Book:The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

“The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.”

Way Able Given Missing Ears Holes Fats Code Exquisite Politeness Gist

Book:Right Ho, Jeeves (EasyRead Edition)

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves (EasyRead Edition)

“I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you from having to give a straight answer." "Perhaps so," said the Queen with an amused smile. "'Mayhap' is a good word too," Alec suggested. "Also 'perchance,'" Izzy said. "I see nothing wrong with 'maybe'," said Simon. "A little modern, but the gist of the idea comes across.”

Want Giving Littles Said Ideas Answers Modern Fairs Folks Queens Amused Good Words Isabelle Lightwood Gist

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said "Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign", which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is "If it don't stink, marry it", which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Mean Said Eye Beautiful Bits Poet Critics Versions Reign Maxims Stink Dwarfs Great Poet Dwarves Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder Gist

Book:Artemis Fowl:

Source: Artemis Fowl:

“The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.”

Children Stories Reading Approach Guides Reading Books Entitled Literacy Introduction Fluent Joy Of Reading Fluency Gist

Author:Marie Clay

“Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.”

Children Littles Wisdom Moving Games Courage Blood Drinking Invisible Milk Hunters Infant Nourishment Embryos Searchers Gist

Author:Rumi

“I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.”

Humor Political Proud Dad Standing My Dad Cartoonist Gist

Author:George W. Bush

“This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples”

Ifs Thinking Men Poor Race Seeing He Man Pure Worship Weak Temples Creeds Poor Man Castes Diseased Shiva Gist

Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora

“I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.”

Stills Real Sleep Democracy Remains Angry Historical Tongue Repeats Pens Tempest Resonance Syllables Unwritten Gist

Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

“I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is the epitome of American excess, of American greed. I'm talking about a place called Cold Stone Creamery. Whoa. If you have not been there, the basic gist of Cold Stone is that they take ice cream and then they just go ape sh*t with it.”

Ifs Thinking Talking Cold Stones Greed Convinced Ice Excess Cream Ice Cream Apes Epitome Gist Keds

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.”

Way Giving Said Hands Might Care Difficult Attention Study Paper Photographer Photograph Details Complicated Headlines Layman Attention To Detail Gist

Author:Howard S. Becker

“The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips”

Hips Twists Gist

Author:Chubby Checker

“This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.”

Knows Giving Advice Self Control Foe Gist

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Looks Struggle Heard Broads Accents Recognise Dialect Scots Gist

Author:Ralph Fiennes