Quotes About Distillation

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

As early as 1910, Ludwig Landsberg had suggested that I should examine the problem of splitting heavy oils and oil residues into benzines.

Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the snap ending.

Quel che noi leggiamo, lo taciamo. Il piacere del libro letto lo teniamo spesso gelosamente segreto. Sia perchè non vi vediamo materia di conversazione, sia perchè prima di poterne dire una parola dobbiamo lasciar fare al tempo la sua splendida opera di distillazione.

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.

Poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time. Alexander Moncrieffe

But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Before long the impetus for prohibition spread to all of the states, and even without martial law their legislatures began to pass laws prohibiting distillation for any purposes other than medicinal use.

The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

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

History is the distillation of rumour.

History a distillation of rumor

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

when you go over it, cut out everything you can. The main thing is to know what to leave out. The way you tell whether you're going good is by what you can throw away.

To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth but into it. My job is to make something happen in a space barely larger than the span of your hand, behind your eyes, distilled out of all that I have carried, from friends, teachers, people met on planes, people I have seen only in my mind, all my mother and father ever did, every favorite book, until it meets and distills from you, the reader, something out of the everything it finds in you.

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

By the 1850s, turpentine production was declining in America. A new competitor surged into the lamp oil market: coal oil, distilled from cannel coal (oil shale) or asphalt/bitumen, a heavy hydrocarbon found naturally in semisolid pools such as Pitch Lake on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

Silliman called fractional distillation "tedious," and, in fact, it took him more than three weeks to complete the experiment. But he identified seven different component oils mixed together in the crude petroleum, ranging in color, viscosity, and odor