Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

Yngwie Malmsteen

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

Norman O. Brown

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

Marcus Aurelius

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Sean William Scott

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

Thomas Aquinas

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

Paul Davies

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Hermann Weyl

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

Jim Crace

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Neil MacGregor

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Neil MacGregor

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Paul Scheuring

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Joseph Campbell

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Joan Didion

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

James McBride

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

John Madden

There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

Bay Buchanan

He did everything correct. They feel that they have a right to all information about his life, and they simply do not.

Chris Hill

I think it's important that people get to know as much information as possible. I was very supportive of it.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Jim Moran

It is premature, we don't have enough information and . . . it may turn out to be unnecessary.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

James Jeffrey

I don't have any more information for you on that.

Romeo Crennel

I don't know where Len got the information from, but maybe he should say where he got it from, ... He didn't get it from me. If he would name that person and say where he got the information from, then I would like to talk to that person.

Arlen Specter

Had that information been shared with the FBI, which was trying to get it, 9/11 might have been prevented,

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.