Quotes About Substance

But darling, I am clean. Two years clean." "Cept the coke, weed, drink, pills . . ." "I said I'm clean, not a bloody Mormon!

saw all my years at once, but they were not piled up on each other, experience after experience, building into something of substance—the opposite. A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

Human life is sadly fertile in situations where, as a result of either too much meditation or of some catastrophe, our thoughts seem to hold to nothing; they have no substance, no point of departure, and the present has no hooks by which to hold to the past or fasten on the future.

When well executed, description is unobtrusive and lends substance to a novel. It is the body fat of prose: too much is unhealthy, but without any, you no longer have the thing—you have its skeleton.

Taking drugs to control a drug addiction is like swallowing a spider to catch a fly.)

God damn, The Pusher God damn, I say The Pusher I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man.

You know I've smoked a lot of grass O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills But I never touched nothin' That my spirit could kill.

Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet.

Plutarch's remark: 'When destiny raises a base character by acts of great importance, it reveals his lack of substance'

A Real Love of Books All of us have a unique story to tell. We all have valuable life experiences. We have treasured memories, the building blocks that give us substance, and make us alive. We have experienced change, the birth of a child, the death of a loved one or the founding of our own town. The rise and fall of our organizations and the development or destruction of our communities. What's your story? A Real Love of Books

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

La forma es útil, pero secundaria.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained' (Rumi, Mathnawi

To have imagination, is too to have substance.

You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight

Phrases can build grace into sentences. Taut declarations lend clarity, but too many of them can start to sound like a Dick-and-Jane story. A strategically placed phrase can turn a staccato burst into a more lyrical sentence. This is what we mean by "turning a phrase"—using our command of language and our mastery of the rhythms of a sentence to affect style as well as substance

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

I've often thought that a planet without water would be a dull, sad place. Most, if not all, water on this planet came from countless small comets thumping against the atmosphere (which continues at about ten thousand comets or pieces of comets per day, enough to add a twenty-five-foot depth of water across the entire globe every half a million years). That it comes from space suggests why it is so peculiar and fascinating here on earth. It is a substance from far beyond our reach.

atomic motions cause the waxing and waning of rivers, so too do they produce the transient body that you—whatever "you" means—currently inhabit before its substance flows back into the great global sea of atoms. Consider, then, the particles that are departing your body at this very moment. There is no need to wait for death to scatter you to the winds, waters, and soils of the world. It is already happening.

I'd prefer for people to know that they're going to get some substance when they listen to my music versus hearing the same 'Oooh baby, I love you.'