It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.
Bob Saget

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
Mark Rydell

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.
Kim Novak

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

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

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Julia Cameron

Man is a substance clad in shadows.
John Sterling

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
Asa Gray

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.
John S. Tanner

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
Natasha Henstridge

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

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.
Mark McGwire

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
Jennie Churchill

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

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Richards