Quotes About Substance

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

It is who you are that matters and not how you look.

You hold substance in my psyche

I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It's a genuine vocabulary.

For the record, I still know nothing about marijuana or any drug, and don't want to. My drugs are chopped liver and cheesecake - probably equally damaging, but they taste better.

How amazing it was, Holmes mentioned, that such a powerful substance, the chemistry of which was still not completely known, could be produced by the pharyngeal glands of the worker bee –creating queens from ordinary bee larvae, healing a multitude of mankind's ills.

Unless there is substantive activity going both ways, love is merely a tired platitude without any substance – wishful thinking. In fact, love is another word for happiness and wholeness, but without features, it simply cannot exist.

Writing to Lucretius, on Epicurus' belief that the soul was no different from the rest of the cosmos; made of atoms] Death is therefore nothing to us, and does not concern us at all, since it appears that the substance of the soul is perishable. When the separation of body and soul, whose union is the essence of our being, is consummated, it is clear that absolutely nothing will be able to reach us and awaken our sensibility, not even if earth mixes with sea, and sea with heaven.

Nada como la química para domar la lírica. Pero no se me vaya a aficionar al truco, que el licor es como el matarratas o la generosidad: cuanto más se usa, menos efecto tiene.

It's hard to say whether she's comfortable with her blend of distortion and omission, its willfulness, in fact; but she is accustomed to it. And it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate beds, greedy for the substance of their own lives, but obliged every day to reinvent themselves.

Karl Marx: Religion is the opiate of the masses. Carrie Fisher: I did masses of opiates religiously.

It was one way she had found to fill her solitary childhood, but it was more than that; the act of creation gave substance and shape to her life. It made order out of the chaos.

I felt there must be substance below the stuffed-shirt exterior. After all, he was a Lizzie Borden expert…

I abhor mere prettiness.

Just wearing expensive and glamorous clothes do not merit for me to do a film. There has to be a good story and a good role.

You don't need sex and controversy when your film has merit.

But each wave is made of a substance called water. It is a wave, but at the same time, it is water. Concepts such as birth and death, higher and lower, rising and falling apply only to the waves, not to the water itself. So the waves represent the historical dimension, and the

I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol

How would you draw the line between women with something and women with nothing in them?

The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without substance? Because the pursuit itself has become our only substitute for joy. Unable to rest in anything we achieve, we determine to forget our discontent in a ceaseless quest for new satisfactions. In this pursuit, desire itself becomes our chief satisfaction.

I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.

In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.