183 Substance Quotes for You to Enjoy

With a gimmick, there isn't much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad. Sheamus

You Too Much Too Bad Gimmick Crowd Go Substance Much Play

I try to make my clothing line an entry point for discovering the substance of the rest of my work. Shepard Fairey

Work Try Rest Point Entry Make Line Discovering Substance Clothing

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology. Simon Kuznets

Technology Science Progress Innovations Additional Further Distinctive Economic Economic Growth Advance Mass Closely Modern Substance Which Turn Much Connected Growth Technological Application Basis

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots. Stacy Schiff

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. Thomas Bulfinch

Made Hoop Secure Some Similar Through Generally Sort Metal Leather Were Covered Surrounded Substance Wood Being Them Cut Sword

'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance. Tina Brown

Women Plenty Vogue Substance

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance. Tom Reiss

Today World Seen Believe Sugar Luxurious Once Exactly Scarce Indies Cheap Opposite Were West Modern Diet Substance Where Unhealthy Hard Staple Things Profoundly Associated

I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me. Tracy Lawrence

Music Me Hurt People Speak Sometimes Power Country Think Bit Emotional Emotional Level Never Songs Country Music Like Got Been Commercially Artist May Substance Little Little Bit Them Cut Really Level Things

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles. Travis Fimmel

Yourself Prove Roles Substance Certain Hard

There is an intimacy and trust that is needed between leaders, between their assistants and advisers. Usually, you have the real substance behind closed doors; and the press conferences, you have niceties, nice photo ops. Tzipi Livni

You Trust Closed Doors Nice Intimacy Press Photo Leaders Between Adviser Real Conferences Closed Doors Behind Substance Assistants Needed

Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?' Valerie Plame

Work Hate Down Nuts Those Out Admit Horse Hillary She Policy Gets Substance Show Figures Even Bolts

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. Victor Hugo

Style Surface Subject Substance

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. Vitruvius

Able Shadow Architect Adopt He Instead Mere Fails Also Practical Substance Wherefore Forms Reasons Grasping Assign Sufficient

If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me how to live a life of substance. Vivienne Ming

Life Me You Yourself Father Hero Made Live Mine How Model Person Substance Which Explicit Choice Showing

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

You Would Laws More Cruise Mainstream Make Sure Accessible Got Audiences Same Substance Certainly Tom Tom Cruise Elements Film Larger

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods. Wilhelm Dilthey

Better Light Validated Adequate Find Rational Could New Doctrine Scientific Were Methods Substance Experiences Psychology Which Lived Expression Now

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. Wilhelm Ostwald

Change Water Physical Composition Properties Fact Involved Alter Without Chemical Substance Form Formal Process View Hence Specific

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements. William Henry Bragg

Atoms Fire Energy Our Those Composed Allow Check Up Hands Any Substance Whenever Movements Which Warm Cool

I don't work with anybody on the music, of course. But my God, some of the lyrics that other people have written were so shallow: 'Hey baby this, hey baby that.' I need substance to the words, you know? Give me depth! Yngwie Malmsteen

Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live. Zacky Vengeance

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I’d scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family. Katie Piper

Life Future Family Marriage Goals Thought My Life Before TV Would Would-Be About Attacked Write Long-Term Without How Modelling Short Just Substance Lists Wanted Whether Scribble Depth Successful Plans Things Career

I want to do every kind of role with a reasonable amount of panache. I want to be a fair combination of style and substance. Urmila Matondkar

Style Every Kind Combination Fair Role Substance Want Reasonable Amount

I was all about touching people and influencing people, I always been that type of person. I was the one teaching people things, I just always had a way with my words and I always spoke with substance. DaBaby

People Words Type Way About Touching Had Spoke Always Been Person Just Substance Influencing Teaching Things

I have only two conditions to choose a project - content with substance and space to perform. Tovino Thomas

Space Project Only Perform Content Conditions Substance Choose Two

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