Insubstantial Quotes

36 quotes by 33 authors

The compelling thing about making artâ€”or making anything, I supposeâ€”is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas… — Frederick Lenz
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial… — Robert Genn
Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here… — Frederick Lenz
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small… — Aung San Suu Kyi
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that… — Patrick Stewart
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like… — William Shakespeare
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there,… — Audrey Niffenegger
Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a… — Eoin Colfer
I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to… — Maggie Stiefvater
And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape:… — Stephen Fry
There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why… — Samuel R. Delany
...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live… — Muriel Spark
She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial… — Maggie O'Farrell
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not… — Susan Hill

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