Quotes About Substance

As long as you use the same adolescent cynicism and use the same fighting techniques, the readers and the audience don't give a damn whether your words have substance or not. They simply want you to win because you're their fighter in the cage, and that's it.

Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.

This sincerity covers, and pardons all, [and] is the very substance of the American panic.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Something about a river trip always seems to promote the consumption of potable drugs.

The law is not concerned with trifles.

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God; Begotten, not made; Being of one substance with the Father; By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man.

hackneyed phrases…. The purpose with which these phrases are introduced is for the most part that of giving a fillip to a passage that might be humdrum without them… but their true use when they come into the writer's mind is as danger signals; he should take warning that when they suggest themselves it is because what he is writing is bad stuff, or it would not need such help; let him see to the substance of his cake instead of decorating with sugarplums.

[The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living.

Non multa sed multum [Not many but much].

The Republic is nothing," he said crossly, "a mere name without form or substance.

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

No shade, and shout out to Lil Pump, but on a track like 'Gucci Gang,' he's not really saying much.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.

Drugs make me nervous, really, because I'm a control freak and I don't like to be out of control on drugs.

We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.