Substitute Quotes

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.