#substance

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#become #dreams #i #life #live

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance? ↗

— Colin Firth

#afterwards #big #case #instinct #me

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance. ↗

— Kelli White

#enhance #i #never #performance #substance

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#bury #carcass #friends #friendship #gone

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ↗

— Monica Baldwin

#size #spider #substance #web #wisp

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes. ↗

— William Bartram

#be the first #birds #even #first #food

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#everything #exist #exists #mind #only

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗