Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Diane Wakoski

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

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Nell Minow

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

Nhat Hanh

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

David Hockney

I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

Audrey Meadows

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Barry Long

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

Carol Burnett

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Brandon Sanderson

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

David Mitchell

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Aasif Mandvi

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

Bo Burnham

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me...

Jerry Reighard

We also sent a message to Kent State with our performances. We have changed since the last time we faced them. We've earned a lot of respect from the conference.

Kourtney Kardashian

When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.

Kevin Corrigan

When I was working on 'Big Fan,' I didn't really feel like any lines needed to be changed or enhanced or expanded upon in any way. I thought it was a solid script. All you had to do was what it said.

Kathleen Sebelius

American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.

John Green

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.

Lamar Butler

Whenever you talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us. This is history. We changed the face of college basketball.

Tessa Thompson

'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.

Dan Flores

We're continuing to monitor the dealer orders. It wouldn't be unheard of if we were to make a change, but at this point in time, nothing has changed yet.

Robert Redford

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.