Quotes About Substance

Don't be led by the exterior. Give more attention to what lies beneath the skin.

Garretson recalled that he drank four beers, smoked two joints

architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance.

Before every one of them was made, they all existed potentially in the clay, and, of course, they are identical substantially; but when formed, and so long as the form remains, they are separate and different; the clay-mouse can never become a clay-elephant, because, as manifestations, form alone makes them what they are, though as unformed clay they are all one.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

the greater the noise the less the deeds. And grand announcements do not mean great doings. Let

Brevity did not mean inconsequence...

I am the impurity that makes the zinc react, I am the grain of salt or mustard.

The substance inside the can was bright green. It shimmered like Jell-O in the light from the ceiling fixture.

The next time you stand on a beach at night, watching the moon's bright path across the water, and the conscious of the moon-drawn tides, remember that the moon itself may have been born of a great tidal wave of earthly substance, torn off into space. And remember if the moon was formed in this fashion, the event may have had much to do with shaping the ocean basins and the continents as we know them.

The encounter unfolded as though the deer moved in different universes from ours, as if we were briefly visible to each other through some window between our realities. Having no substance in each other's realm, the SUV slid through the herd, and the frightened herd bounded past the SUV, and we didn't collide with any of them, although we must have missed more than one by a fraction of an inch.

Readers are not sheep. They are wolves, filled with curiosity, adventurous, always hungry for a tasty treat with at least a little substance to it.

twenty, he's caught naked with a fifteen-year-old girl as he's teaching her how to self-inject DMT.

To an extent, his good looks would insulate him from suspicion, for in this new century, image trumped substance and appearance often mattered more than truth.

Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.

because real life was plotted like Tolkien on methamphetamine

Venemous," Jamie corrected him. "If it bites you and makes ye sick, it's venemous; if you bite it and it makes ye sick, it's poisonous.

Don't let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there's something to say.

in Paris of any substance over the last months, and they're united in basic disinterest." He smiled wryly. "Money's none so plentiful that anyone wants to back a dicey proposition like the Stuart restoration." "And that," I said, stretching my back

Perhaps Raymond was right, she added in a softer tone; it's only the essence of a thing that counts. When time strips everything else away, it's only the hardness of the bone that's left.