Quotes About Substance

Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these, the persistence of substance during alteration of state.

Forma dat rei essentiam, materia existentiam.

The hardest substance in the human body is the white enamel of the teeth

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

It is not the anger of other women that will destroy us but our refusals to stand still, to listen to its rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment. I

For the first time I really feel that my writing has a substance and stature that will survive me.

It is not the anger of other women that will destroy us but our refusals to stand still, to listen to its rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment.

We had bought two dozen capsules on Friday.

I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

If you don't like smoking don't even bother getting sober, just stay drunk.

Truth is not an opinion. It's a force like gravity. It's the most valuable substance known to man.

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

Earth science being what it was, however, the tests eventually included feeding a bit of the substance to a rat.

It wasn't until 1911 that California joined forty-five other states in restricting recreational cocaine

Empedocles noticed that if you cover the neck before you immerse it, a clepsydra does not fill. He reasoned that something invisible must be preventing the water from entering the sphere through the holes—he had discovered the material substance we call air.

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path

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.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

I'm pretty sure the devil is made out of high fructose corn syrup.