Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening… — William Shakespeare
Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically… — Daniel Pennac
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed… — Jodi Picoult
Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you… — Dave Barry
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… — Virginia Woolf
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand. — Audre Lorde
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!… — Victor Hugo
In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,… — Cormac McCarthy
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. — Walter Kaufmann
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can… — Kevin Brooks
The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve… — Spencer W. Kimball
Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am… — Thomas Pynchon
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no… — Ian Mcewan
He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is… — Susanna Clarke
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

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