Quotes About Substance

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

It's nice to be in a show where it's not based on taking your shirt off.

Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

could have been chloral," Steve said. "Chloral hydrate. The stuff they use when they want to give somebody a mickey.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

Attempting to write an honest essay doesn't alter the multiplicity of my selves. What changes, if I take the time to stop and measure, is that my multi-selved identity acquires substance.

There's something very wrong when a taste bud is still reporting strangeness five hours after you had a sweetened drink. Do you know that if you smoke crystal meth even once, your entire brain chemistry is altered for the rest of your life? That's what stevia tastes like to me." "I'm not sitting here puffing on a meth stem, if that's what you're trying to say.

They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

El pasado es la sustancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que éste se vuelve pasado en seguida.

Oscuramente creyó intuir que el pasado es la sustancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que éste se vuelve pasado en seguida.

La Recoleta ... Aqui não estarei eu. Estarão o meu cabelo e as minhas unhas, que não saberão que o resto estará morto, e continuarão a crescer e serão pó. Aqui não estarei eu, que serei parte do esquecimento que é a frágil substância de que é feito o universo.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river that carries me away, but I am the river

În chip nedesluÈ™it, a intuit c? trecutul e substanÈ›a din care e alc?tuit timpul; de aceea timpul se preschimb? numaidecât în trecut.

Oscuramente creyó intuir que el pasado es la substancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que éste se vuelve pasado en seguida

There is no need to waste words showing that not everything is useless which cannot be brought under the definition of the useful.

Men, tired of the light, take refuge in the shadow of corporeal substance: the dream of the void which God fills soon seems to them greater than God himself, and hell is created.

The Madras evening breeze has a body to it, its atomic constituents knitted together to create a thing of substance that strokes and cools the skin in the manner of a long, icy drink or a plunge into a mountain spring.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

but they agreed on one thing at least: that there is an inverse relationship between being well turned out and having something to say. Rand talked about people whose careers "depend on keeping faces bland, remarks inconclusive and clothes immaculate".