Condensing Quotes

#1. All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not.

James Elkins

#2. The world was different in the morning. Quiet, unassuming, and somehow bigger, as if it was brimming with possibility. It was, she thought, as if during the day the world went through a shrinking process, gradually condensing the morning's expansion, only to inflate again during the night

H.J. Gerald

#3. The years passed as clouds do, ephemeral and vaporous, condensing, sliding along awhile, then dispersing like ghosts.

Anthony Doerr

#4. Suddenly, the ice became liquid and her veins filled with the cold, condensing fluid. Her heartbeat intensified as the poor muscle attempted to pump the viscous solution.

Aleatha Romig

#5. The object ... is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

Francis Galton

#6. Also, I'll lose half a liter of water per day to breathing until the humidity in the Hab reaches its maximum and water starts condensing on every surface. Then I'll be licking the walls. Yay.

Andy Weir

#7. Since my trips to Earth, I've only managed to assemble a few basics facts about humans, condensing them in to four, overall points: kids got Reese's, teens got recess, adults got recessions, and seniors got receding.

Tai

#8. I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#9. He left without a smile, but he placed something in my chest, a hollow thing that left no room for the hope and happiness that had been condensing there.

Jan Ellison

#10. Small, forthright words, used in the service of condensing experience, might have an idea buried in them as large as the most expansive work that wears its intellectualism on its sleeve. The unshed tears of the deeply felt are akin to the unused large words in the service of a thought.

Sarah Ruhl

#11. For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed.

Lorrie Moore

#12. I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

Halsey

#13. At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

Joseph Brodsky

#14. The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.

Robert Boyle

#15. I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

Richard King

#16. There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

Sebastian Faulks

#17. To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Ernest Holmes

#18. Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

Amisha Patel

#19. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.

Walter Isaacson

#20. Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"
"No."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. What is good is irrepressible.

Robert A. Giacalone

#22. Always look on the brighter side of life

Eric Idle

#23. One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Jacob Appelbaum

#24. You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.

Chris Christie

#25. I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

Criss Angel

#26. I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

Liam Gillick

#27. ...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"

Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.

Willa Cather

#28. Life is rather like a long train ride; you may encounter a great many people, but looking out from your own small compartment of self you catch only a glimpse of other people's joy or despair.

Faith Baldwin

#29. Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!

David Nicholls