Lack of Substance Quotes

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

… only an empty political formula

Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at his program, almost no substance. Change, hope, what's that? I mean, he had some policies, but it was almost certain that he would give them up instantly, which he did.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Michael Bisping just speaks to speak; he just talks to talk. He just tries to open his mouth so that something can be heard, but nothing's going to come out.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Too much information about nothing.