No Substance Quotes

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

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

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Ether is the only substance we are confident of in dynamics. One thing we are sure of and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminferous ether.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Time is the substance of which we are made

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

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.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

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.