Substance Quotes - page 19

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly. (Al Roker)
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. View quote
Chow Yun-Fat
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. View quote
Dee Hock
Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference. View quote
Dee Hock
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. View quote
Dyan Cannon
Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.' But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind? View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. View quote
Eric Alterman
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. View quote
Ezra Cornell
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection. View quote
Felicia Day
The body is the substance of the stone. View quote
George Ripley
We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms. (Gilbert N. Lewis)
Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. View quote
Geoffrey Beene
I want to entertain people, but with some substance. View quote
Irrfan Khan
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. View quote
Jennifer Hudson
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left. View quote
Julian Clary
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. View quote
Kate Walsh
One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. View quote
Lady Randolph Churchill
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. View quote
Lili Taylor
Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance. View quote
Mark McGwire
It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. View quote
Mark Rydell
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance. (Maiara Walsh)
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably. View quote
Jefferson Mays
Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. View quote
John S. Tanner
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. View quote
Natasha Henstridge
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. View quote
Octavia Spencer