No Substance Quotes

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

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.

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug.

Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

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.

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second.

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done.

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

I saw, he was in a different league on a different planet. Everybody says we need substance in these debates, you've got it. You've got it from [Ted] Cruz.

Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media.

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.

We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit.

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!

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