Easily Replaced Quotes

#1. Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

James Surowiecki

#2. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Boris Vian

#3. The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

Isaac Asimov

#4. Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

Alice Lowe

#5. The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Buchanan Robinson

#6. It is the business of future to be dangerous ... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead

#7. The smallest moments: they return, dwell, endure.

Colum McCann

#8. I grew up on you have to work hard for money, you have to work hard for money. And so I replaced that with, money comes easily and frequently.

Loral Langemeier

#9. When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.

Brian O'Driscoll

#10. It's sick how you can be intimate with someone one minute and then be furious with that same person the next.

Daria Snadowsky

#11. objects can be fixed or replaced. But the feelings of loved ones are not so easily mended." Thr

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

#13. Do not forget about the butterflies.

Evan Meekins

#14. One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

Bill Nighy

#15. Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

Stuart Rothenberg

#16. Never far removed from the progressive consciousness was a question that was never easily answered: of what value was it to punish offending Democrats, if one merely replaced them with infinitely more retrograde Republicans?

David Pietrusza

#17. I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

Patty Duke

#18. People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Ernie Banks

#19. 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Terry Pratchett

#20. I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

John Dos Passos