A Quote by Austin O'Malley

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art. — © Austin O'Malley
Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

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The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.
However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it I never went for a pint. I went to a pub to get f**ked up. If it was just going for a pint that would be ok but once I start I just can't stop.
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
A quart bottle should hold a quart.
(Art is) the residue of vision.
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a second residue equivalent to the first is accordingly a rotation about an axis accompanied by translation along the axis. Hence the only configurations for a chain compatible with our postulate of equivalence of the residues are helical configurations.
They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical element in us, - do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.
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