Style Over Substance Quotes

#1. My old man tells me every chance he gets I'm "style over substance" and that I've never done anything of value in my life. I'm fifteen. What does he expect? Being "cool as" is the only thing anyone cares about."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it

Jamie Scallion

#2. Maybe younger than the thirty he looked, still caught in style over substance.

Mary Hughes

#3. If we don't understand bad writing, we can't understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing draws attention to the writer himself.

Anis Shivani

#4. Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be

Emilie Autumn

#5. I'd hate it to become style over substance, I'd hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don't like dressing up in something I'm not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

Ellie Goulding

#6. Whatever else the election of Barack Obama represented - some have called it redemption, others have called it the triumph of style over substance - it was the ultimate victory for people who believe that black political gains are of utmost importance to black progress in America.

Jason L. Riley

#7. Jim Rohn is the master motivator - he has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference and it sticks. I consider Jim the 'Chairman of Speakers.' The world would be a better place if everyone heard my friend, Jim Rohn.

Mark Victor Hansen

#8. Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

Charles Kennedy

#9. Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Victor Hugo

#10. I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.

Robert H. Schuller

#11. The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

Jen Lancaster

#12. Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.

Boomer Esiason

#13. When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.

Steve Lawson

#14. Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that's at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.

Tom Ford

#15. Ability is of no value without discipline. Winning has no style or substance without humility.

Andrew Critchley

#16. What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

Rachel Held Evans

#17. I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

Emily Gould

#18. I just remember that everything looked the same-all style and no substance

Paula Scher

#19. Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.

Bellamy Young

#20. Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.

Arnold Bennett

#21. The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.

Wally Olins

#22. In a culture where image is more important than information, style more important than substance it is not enough to possess the truth. [Christian] case makers must also master the media.

J. Warner Wallace

#23. So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even make you a movie about it.' Style instead of substance, the image instead of the reality

Salman Rushdie

#24. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown

#25. Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Wynton Marsalis

#26. Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.

James Hunter

#27. In a culture that elevates beauty and style, the Christian community is at genuine risk fordistraction, even deception. What do we truly admire in our leaders? Are we nodifferent from secular population, drawn tocharisma and style above substance and i tegrity?
I hope not.

Jen Hatmaker

#28. Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Irving Babbitt

#29. Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.

Derek Blasberg

#30. A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.

Steve Truglia

#31. I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Kate Walsh

#32. Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Derwin L. Gray

#33. Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

Stanley Schmidt

#34. You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Ozwald Boateng