#substance

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface. ↗

— Christian Slater

#between #bit #done #films #i

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers. ↗

— John Walters

#become #borders #creating #dangerous #difficult

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#also #bring #dropped #forth #grow

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. ↗

— Charles Ives

#cannot #corner #hope #off #reality

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 Newton Lewis

#another #atom #atoms #basic #complete

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#definitions #humor #substance-abuse #humor

The substance of painting is light. ↗

— Andre Derain

#painting #substance

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#began #century #desire #done #earth

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#failing #life #lose #losing #music

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#becomes #image #important #more #substance