Quotes About Distillation

Distilling these mixtures in turn came to be called "cracking" them—breaking them open, as it were.

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something.

It all seems important. But then we step back and think about the specific people who will use our product, and what they'll need to accomplish to be successful. We distill that into a sentence or two. Then we carve away everything we don't need, and we're shocked at how small our viable solution really is. It's magic

To my mind, Celia Ray was perfection. She was New York City's very distillation—a glittering composite of sophistication and mystery. I would endure any filth or befouling, just to have access to her.

We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Yesterday was to me like the paper through which chemists filter their solutions: all suspended particles, all that is superfluous remains on this paper. And this morning I went downstairs freshly distilled, transparent.

His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

the layer of charcoal filters and flavors the whiskey

most of what we know as rum comes from molasses, not cane juice.

In fact, tequila and mezcal both work beautifully in any cocktail that calls for whiskey, rye, or bourbon.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.

plot, for Agatha, meant distillation of character.

To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

I hear what many of you are saying: We don't have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

When I watch a movie, I don't want to see the extra bits.

boils down to

We are forever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry.

I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material in this universe.

boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns—endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.