183 Substance Quotes for You to Enjoy

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. Chow Yun-Fat

Me Strange Culture Words Some Because Understand Just Substance English

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick. Christopher Shays

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting. Colin Mochrie

Love Beautiful Me Change People Big Style Everything Reliance Would Would-Be Sexy Reluctance Over Budget Like Most Industry Big Budget Understood Blockbusters Hire Substance Interesting Hollywood Many Thing Things

'Reckoning' will be the first game of its kind. They've taken that 'God of War'-style combat and placed it in a truly open world with hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can do whatever it is you want to do. What path you take, what role you choose, what trail you blaze - there's meaning and depth and substance in the world. Curt Schilling

God You Game World Path Will First Whatever Hundreds Reckoning Kind Be The First Take Open Taken Blaze Combat Hours Truly Trail Role Substance Want Placed Meaning Depth Choose

With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac's, but I thought Tupac's passion and ability to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of like both, with a lot substance going but a lot of swag. Damian Lillard

Better Passion Thought Relate Kind Ability Both Like His Lot Than Person Going Substance Tupac Biggie Average Average Person Flow

For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through. Daniel Barenboim

Music Me First Living Late Complex Carter Composers Proof Seems Sees Remains Through Uncompromising He Development Most Because Becomes Accessible Substance Represents Which Inaccessible Centuries Personally Meaningful Living Proof Early

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. Daniel Libeskind

You Liberty Remember Saw Immigrant Statue Statue Of Liberty Dream Steel Through Glass Know Concrete Came Ship America American Representation Just Substance American Dream Really Skyline

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. David Bowie

Intelligence Passion Believe Universe Bereft Though Visual Religious Rituals Empty May Behind Substance Agent Even Awe Necessarily

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise. David Shields

Book Otherwise Perceived More Between Content Covers Substance Literary Might

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Dee Hock

Substance Form Enduring Ephemeral

Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance. Derek Blasberg

Business Style Become Favorite Kind Only Undercover Also Line Substance Successful Products Businesswoman Actress Jessica Honest

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance. Donna Brazile

Beautiful Women Men Power Style Down Crippling High Corridor High Heels Wear Allowances Over Make Substance Heels Preference Your Who

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

Values Feeling Sense Relationships Our Unless Out Spin See Web No Sense Concept Around Makes References Substance Even Now

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

Fears that formaldehyde from vaccines may cause cancer are similar to fears of mercury and aluminum, in that they coalesce around miniscule amounts of the substance in question, amounts considerably smaller than amounts from other common sources of exposure to the same substance. Eula Biss

Cause Cancer Fears Other Considerably Similar Mercury Smaller Around Sources Question Than Same May Substance Common Exposure Amount Vaccines

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

Character Matter Enjoy Think Human Substance Human Beings Beings Playing

Harassment doesn't just happen to 'social observers' and 'comedians' - women who express themselves publicly are reliably verbally attacked online and in person, not for their substance but for their form. Faith Salie

Women Reliably Online Attacked Observers Comedians Verbally Person Just Substance Form Happen Social Themselves Harassment Who Express Publicly

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection. Felicia Day

Love Heart Judgment Rejection Enough Bit Geek Someone Something Brave Essentially Substance Being Against Little To Love Little Bit Means

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

Lies Opinion Substance Breed Sufficient Brings

Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance. Gary Herbert

Too Campaigns Often Substance Flash

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms. Gilbert Newton Lewis

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual soul lives and perceives, but also to be spread out everywhere in its essence and substance, as many Platonists and Pythagoreans have taught. Giordano Bruno

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. Gottfried Leibniz

Immaterial General Maintain Conceived Also Without Material Any Essence Substance Substances Being Cannot Whether Bare Activity

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

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