Quotes of: Substance Keyword

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Susan Cheever

pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Italian

we may have a better reflection of ourselves in the mirror depending on how thick the opaque substance behind it is; the lighter the substance, the poorer the image; the thicker the substance,the better the image.

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

God's Way: Day by Day

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

English

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

Ray Manzarek

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Henry Newman

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other wor...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

From a very early age onwards, people's attention had been attracted to the volatile substances, characterized by strong smells or flavours, which are among the large variety of substances which form within plants; these were used partly for therapeu...

Otto Wallach

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

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

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting