Quotes About Distillation

To name a thing, one needs to have gathered it, distilled and purified it, attempted to identify it with clarity and precision. One puts a box around the thing and says what's in the box is the thing and what's not is not.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials.

A sabedoria da vida consiste em eliminar o que não é essencial.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

The first known perfumer was a woman, Tapputi, an overseer at a palace in Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE. Clay tablets tell us that she used oil, reeds, flowers, resin, and water to make perfumes by a process of distillation and filtration.

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

But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.

the first rule of art is exclusion: knowing what to leave out.

He said that in an attempt to understand the law—or, for that matter, just about anything—the key was to focus on what he termed the "one percent." Don't get lost in the crabgrass of details, he urged us. Instead, think about the essence of what you're exploring—the one percent that gives life to the other ninety-nine.

Talking points aren't going to help the viewers understand something better. They're about as useful as bumper sticker slogans.

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

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol, and that's PROOF. That's the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the 17th century when distilled spirits were first taxed, and that's what is meant by proof to this day

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Story is similar to music. A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

WHEN YOU FEEL CONFUSED, CLARIFY YOUR MESSAGE

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

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

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? What answer would my father give?

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

She hated our family? She had always seemed to me their distillation, a glittering monument to our blood's vain cruelty. Yet it was true what she said: nymphs were allowed to work only through the power of others. They could expect none for themselves.