Top 1200 Form And Substance Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

For me, my stories are spiritual journeys, and whenever I write, it's a form of worship. It's a form of my worship. Worship is not just Sunday morning as we all know. Worship is everything we do. Writing is most definitely a form of worship for me and, God as I'm writing, He takes me on these journeys.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

I believe that Bitcoin holds value as a form of 'good money' that is superior to any previously discovered or developed form of money.

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of you.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

People think I don't have substance and I'm just another pretty face.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

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

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

I hope to get roles that are not just glamorous, but also have some substance.

Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

The industry confines us in boxes, but we have to prove that we are women of substance.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

I've always wanted to be a woman of substance, giving the society as much as I can.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.