Top 1200 Form And Substance Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

In some ways, it's easier to go from short form to long form than vice versa. I used to make 30 second 'movies,' and I think if I only did long form I would find it difficult to adjust to that short a length. 'I gotta say something in 30 seconds. Forget about it!' There have been directors who have done commercials over the years, but they seem to be the exception.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

I look for gravitas and substance that can outlast the theatrical experience.

I don't look at the length of the role, but yes I'm looking for substance.

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.

Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

I don't mind playing a supporting character if it has some substance.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

Cholesterol is a substance in the blood that causes you to eat salads.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.