Substance Quotes

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Irving Babbitt

Far, Times, Style

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
Charles Fillmore

Spiritual, Words, After

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.
Fred Durst

Children, Laugh, Movie

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Men, Dark, Reason

I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.
Ellie Goulding

Power, Hate, Become

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
George Soros

Negative, Used, Result

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?
Colin Firth

Big, Often, Actor

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
Dean Kamen

Real, Try, Working

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.
Seann William Scott

Become, Older, Attracted

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.
Lindsay Lohan

Hard, Working, Away

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. Hayakawa

Age, Important, Television

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
Dee Hock

Success, Future, Past

The substance of painting is light.
Andre Derain

Light, Painting

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt

Thought, Reason, Speak

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
Charles Ives

Hope, Art, Reality

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
John Sculley

Family, Children, Expect

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman

Evil, Corruption, Excess

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.
Jennifer Hudson

Music, Today, Song

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.
Brooke Shields

I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.
Grimes

Music, Tired, Person

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
Eric Alterman

Angry, Trying, Vote

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
Ron Suskind

Faith, Hope, Unseen

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
Bradley Whitford

Give, After, Victory

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.
Ezra Miller

Character, Human, Enjoy

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
Charles Kennedy

Politics, Style, Says

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
William Bernbach

Forget, Saying, Hard

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin

Living, Ecstasy, Conquers

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
Werner Herzog

Same, Film, Sure

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
Ella Maillart

Feeling, Around, Sense

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.
Lily Collins

Girl, Real, Girlfriend

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