Quotes of: Substance Keyword

A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.

Steve Truglia

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

Paul Harris

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

Ezra Miller

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

Ben Mendelsohn

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

Gottfried Leibniz

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

Harvey V. Fineberg

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

James Surowiecki

Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.

John H. Tobe

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

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Paul Twitchell

The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our deepest secret, the only one that deserves expression, always remains unexpressed. This secret never subm...

Report to Greco

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and ...

A Mencken Chrestomathy

Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other in optical and other physical characters and so built up together as to give the body certain structural features. Chemical examinati...

Michael Foster

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

The Lady Elizabeth

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

Phenomenology of Spirit

Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.

Paul Virilio

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Mark McGwire

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

Robert South

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Edmund Burke

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Kate Walsh

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Annie Besant