Quotes About Substance

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

No matter how sophisticated the style or elegant the setting, soul is the bottom line.

Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on her first arrival, was again the scene of agitated spirits and unquiet slumbers. Yet how different now the source of her inquietude from what it had been then; how mournfully superior in reality and substance.

Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: The production of petroleum has now become of such commercial and social importance to the world that if it were suddenly to cease no other known substance could supply its place, and such an event could not be looked upon in any other light than of a widespread calamity.

When I was in Mexico, I was told how mescaline was extracted from the peyote cactus.

What is real is always worth it.

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Substance over style is the rule for all resumes. Any special effects will dilute the gravitas and stature of the impression. You want people to concentrate on your accomplishments and your successes, not the curlicues of a font or unusual shades or contrast of colors.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

Be it in Malayalam or Tamil, I got to play characters who had plenty to do in the storyline and not just be a prop.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis.

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

It always had occurred to me that drugs misuse was obviously a major driver of demand in the criminal justice system.

We have more to offer than just looking good.

Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

I just thought that if you are going to do a one-woman show you need to come with it, you know? Don't just stand there doing characters. You need to have something to say.