Quotes About Substance

I believe in content. Just looking pretty next to the hero gives me no joy. I believe I have more to offer than that.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

I want to play characters that are real, that have depth in them.

You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

BEING (models) instead of SEEMING (actors).

Trotsky, in whose writings we find very many valuable observations on Stalin as an individual, took the position that he was important not in his own right but only as a personification of the Thermidorean bureaucracy. As he summed up his view in The Revolution Betrayed, "Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.

Death is lighter than a feather. Death arrives in a heartbeat, no more tangible than a flicker of light. It has no weight, no substance.

Quality isn't a substance. Neither is it a method. It's outside of both. If one builds a house using the plumb-line and spirit-level methods he does so because a straight vertical wall is less likely to collapse and thus has higher Quality than a crooked one. Quality isn't method. It's the goal toward which method is aimed.

You can fill a glass full to the brim with milk, and fill another glass of the same size brim full of popcorn, and then you can put all the popcorn kernel by kernel into the milk, and the milk will not run over. You cannot do this with bread. Popcorn and milk are the only two things that will go into the same place.

she pronounced in an interview in 1964.10 'My father was a gentleman of substance, and never did a hand's turn in his life, and he was a most agreeable man.' He was also a fool, although not intellectually stupid by any means. He knew exactly the worth of the people around him, but it was not in his nature to present to them anything other than his 'agreeable' front.

There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

This is the problem with branding: it has become more important than the thing it purports to brand.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.