Quotes About Substance

With a gimmick, there isn't much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad.

My parents covered police pursuits, and it was, in many ways, the beginnings of reality show TV in this captivating story that was a lot of flash but not all that much substance.

I try to make my clothing line an entry point for discovering the substance of the rest of my work.

I just didn't want my legacy to be that of a few others that I don't even have to name, where I was controlled by a substance, or a liquid for that matter. My life is too precious to me.

I wanted to be different and went in for roles with substance after my first film itself.

In the South, we assume that one will have substance, be polite, be kind, be nice, but that person also needs to present himself/herself to the world with an individual unique well-developed style that identifies them as special.

Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.

I want to be taken seriously: I can cook, I do have qualifications, OK, I do make mistakes, but I want to show that on camera. I'm not perfect. I'm someone who works hard, who is serious about what they're doing. It's substance over style.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.

Inclusiveness has an outlook, an appearance and substance.

People have compared me to Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Eminem, and J. Cole. They bring substance and largely are all good storytellers, and those are two of my biggest strengths. It's dope to be compared to people who have longevity in the game because that's the most important thing for me: I want my name to live forever.

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe.

I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't have any substance to it. People can see through that really quickly.

'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

Each January, I put God first and honor him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month's pay. That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides!

The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.

Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the most successful in American history.

You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an exciting movie, people won't watch it.

I hope to get roles that are not just glamorous, but also have some substance.

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.