Quotes About Substance

Earthenware or pure gold, what goes into them for certain purposes establishes what they are; whatever their fundamental constitution as vessels, when full of shit (for example) they can only be shit pots.108

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

I like to be spoken about only when I am doing meaningful work.

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

They made data a controlled substance.

I don't get this, Hiro says. What is Snow Crash? It's a drug, asshole, the guy says. What do you think?

I was going to kill that doctor when he shoved his finger up my ass but then I realized the possibilities of that substance.

had led him into the business of small-town marijuana dealing, which must have seemed dark and dangerous at the time, but that now, in these days of crystal meth, seemed as wholesome as running a lemonade stand.

Ordinary matter is what we are all made of. It has gravity and interacts with light. Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way. Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.

Ordinary matter is what we are all made of. It has gravity and interacts with light. Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way. Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the

Heroin got the drive awright-but there's not a tingle to a ton-you got to get M to get the tingle-tingle.

I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered.

In short, drugs are the worst thing that has happened to American law enforcement since Prohibition.

The torrent of verbiage comes about because professional politicians are more concerned with spin than substance, the media never cease to howl for 'something' to be done after every mishap, the lobbyists ensure that the small print protects the vested interests they serve, and the lawyers profit from the whole sorry mess.5

young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have been taught isolated 'modules', not narratives, much less chronologies. They have been trained in the formulaic analysis of document excerpts, not in the key skill of reading widely and fast.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

Scientists are looking for a substance to fill all of space, a substance that will permit light to travel as a wave, and a substance that permits gravity to operate between masses. Ether does all that and much more but is undetectable without taking into consideration Tao's consciousness, which is the answer to all the questions.

Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.

Although all things with physical substance are real, not all real things have physical substance.

The banality of cancer seems to irk him almost as much as its lethality. Lacking any dialectical substance, it affords few opportunities to escape platitude or avoid cliché. It's a big subject, but it's essentially small talk

she acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.