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Quotes About Content

So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. The feasts there were of the grandest in London, but there was not overmuch content therewith, except among the guests who sat at my lord's table. Had he not been so great a Prince very few possibly would have visited him; but in Vanity Fair the sins of very great personages are looked at indulgently.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
More matter with less art.
~ William Shakespeare
Less art, more matter
~ William Shakespeare
the worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains.
~ William Shakespeare
The sense of separateness from others, of loneliness, had not often been so strong as that morning. He wondered if there was any true content in life, if all men were as troubled as he with a sense of disillusion. It had not always been so. His childhood had been happy enough in the unthinking way that childhoods are.
~ Winston Graham
That's all I have to say about that.
~ Winston Groom
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
~ Christopher Knight
The moment of silence stretched out as thin as the content of a congressman's speech.
~ Unknown
Thankfully, when working with between one and five students, formal instruction and practice can be much richer, as well as more targeted. Thus 2 structured hours of instruction and practice can cover more content than a full industrial school day.
~ Unknown
How to care for the injured body, the kind of body that can't hold the content it is living?
~ Claudia Rankine
How to care for the injured body, the kind of body that can't hold the content it is living? And where is the safest place when that place must be someplace other than in the body?
~ Claudia Rankine
you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.
~ Clive Bell
The critics have always been slow to appreciate the true quality of the personal content of Joyce's work - a fact which has led to a serious misunderstanding of the fundamental double-talk inherent in his symbolic language.
~ Unknown
The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. Once, I was content to hope for knighthood and the power to force Cardan and his friends to leave me alone. All I wanted was to find some place to fit in here in Faerie. Now I wonder what it would be like to choose the next king.
~ Holly Black
If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that such a girl as I am will be content with your asthmatic love, and not look for youth and good looks and pleasure by way of a variety—
~ Honore de Balzac
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
~ Unknown
Because Life is about satisfying your ego, you must ask yourself two questions: Where is your ultimate destination? And, are you content with what it took to arrive there?
~ Unknown
If it is a fantasy fiction, and you want to portray a story of a vampire, you have to keep the essence of the story same. But if you have to have five episodes a week, where do we get so much content from?
~ Rithvik Dhanjani
Vancouver just feels comfortable to me.
~ Tom Segura
I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.
~ William Baldwin
What is more important today for the audience is to have different kinds of content. They like variety, they like different kinds of stories, different kinds of entertainment.
~ Supriya Pathak
I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
~ Natalie Massenet
Our destination programming allows us to put a stake in the ground and create a showy tweak that is story driven, with products that are inspiring to our customers, and the content doesn't expire at the end of the show but continues to live on in various formats on multiple distribution platforms.
~ Mindy Grossman
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
~ Paulo Freire