Interchangeable Quotes

#1. Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.

Milan Kundera

#3. I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting ... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.

Andy Warhol

#4. Many people confuse a Dom personality with a Dom's position of authority. The two are not exactly the same or interchangeable. A true Dom dominates. Plain and simple. And by dominate, we mean does what it takes to get a job done. Even if that means submit.

Lucian Bane

#5. Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Tim Berners-Lee

#6. I felt like an animal in a cage being stared at by other animals, all of us anonymous, mindless, interchangeable.

Leah Raeder

#7. Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

Brian L. Weiss

#8. Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

Edmund White

#9. Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.

Gunther Hauk

#10. It is soon to be spring
The Christmas toys barely played with
I have a glass soldier whose head can turn
The epaulettes interchangeable
Soon flowers will bloom
Lawrence from the garden shed will give us
each a cup of seeds

I am to wait
I said

George Saunders

#11. I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.

Evan Rachel Wood

#12. Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Wallace Stegner

#13. Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual ... but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

Edward R. Murrow

#14. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

Warren G. Bennis

#15. There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

Daley Thompson

#16. Blood and wine are interchangeable.
Love and hate are unrecognizable.
Sanity is no longer with me.

A.P. Sweet

#17. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

Leonardo Donofrio

#18. So you're saying they don't want to kill us, they want to fuck us?"
"At that level of desire the two acts are interchangeable, sir.

Matt Wallace

#19. A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.

Neill Blomkamp

#20. All bosses are interchangeable. The only difference is how they like their tea.

Jodi Taylor

#21. Marriage, by its very nature, requires complementarity. The mystical union of Christ and the church - each "part" belonging to the other but neither interchangeable - cannot be pictured in marital union without the differentiation of male and female.

Kevin DeYoung

#22. Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

Walter A. Shewhart

#23. Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Fred Brooks

#24. N truth, we don't know a whole lot of what Simeon North did. He did manage to match John Hall's ability to make interchangeable parts, but it's not clear how much of that came from Hall and how much was original with North.

Charles R. Morris

#25. You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Douglas Coupland

#26. They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.

Robert A. Caro

#27. Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea ... creativity and stupid are interchangeable ... because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.

Richie Norton

#28. We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)

Lauren Fox

#29. Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

Diplo

#30. I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.

Rick Rubin

#31. If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do

Stephen King

#32. Why not end up with her? floats into my line of vision. An answer: she has a better body than most other girls I know. Another one: everyone is interchangeable anyway.

Bret Easton Ellis

#33. (Never mind that the assistants were likely interchangeable, while Michelangelo was not.)

Susan Cain

#34. Angels and demons were identical
interchangeable archetypes
all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

Dan Brown

#35. Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.

Cormac McCarthy

#36. I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.

Donna Fargo

#37. The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.

Lee Siegel

#38. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

Damian Lewis

#39. Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad of interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better. - David Mamet

Seth Godin

#40. Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Tanith Lee

#41. I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon ... [p. 48]

Siri Hustvedt

#42. Vague statements are interchangeable.

Robert Mager

#43. We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.

George William Russell

#44. Socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.

Colin Cotterill

#45. Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.

Steve Hanke

#46. We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Erin Morgenstern

#47. [She] had occasionally glimpsed a series of interchangeable well-groomed blondes accompanying him to work events, then Grace had rocked up with her funny-coloured hair and her funny-coloured tights, and Vaughn had been smitten. Well, as smitten as Vaughn could be.

Sarra Manning

#48. Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Pankaj Mishra

#49. A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Elaine Dundy

#50. Bob ... the Titan ... he only helped us in Tartarus because you were kind to him. You told him we were worth saving. That's the only reason we're alive.' She said we so easily, as if she and Percy were interchangeable, inseparable.

Rick Riordan

#51. The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

Rachel Johnson

#52. Economists copied their mathematics from the work of 19th-century physicists: they see individuals and businesses as interchangeable atoms, not as unique creators.

Peter Thiel

#53. A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, you're invisible.

Laura Levine

#54. I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.

Christopher Rice

#55. Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the Ropes, and I'd probably be in sympathy with a different one on any given day, depending on what's going on in the world.

James Vance

#56. Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world ...

Terry Pratchett

#57. Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!

Malcolm Lowry

#58. It is also true that the separate brain units, by
virtue of where they are placed in a system, contribute different
components to the system's operation and are thus not interchangeable.

Antonio R. Damasio

#59. I THINK ITS COOL THAT OTHER CROWDS LIKE WHAT I DO. HOWEVER IVE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD MIX OF PEOPLE AT MY SHOWS. I STARTED DOING THINGS ON RADIO ON ROCK MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE MARKETS. IVE ALWAYS BEEN A COUNTRY TYPE ACT HOWEVER I STARTED WITH THE ROCK MARKET. IM VERY INTERCHANGEABLE.

Larry The Cable Guy

#60. If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.

Swami Vivekananda

#61. In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

David Hare

#62. Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

John Baldessari

#63. Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Hildegard Knef

#64. The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

Greg Palast

#65. Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

#66. The dead shook off their rust of living and seized up steel. Their lips quivered with the defiance of innocents, with manipulations of politicians and their interchangeable dreams, and with the insanity of thugs who don't even know for which parties they commit their atrocities.

Ben Okri

#67. I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#68. In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable.

Chris Murray

#69. The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

Terence McKenna

#70. I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.

Marge Simon

#71. Books are interchangeable: People want a story that excites them, relaxes them, entertains them. And if you don't give them that, someone else will - and you'll be history.

Joel Dicker

#72. Isn't it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours.

Lang Leav

#73. I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Jean Giraudoux

#74. Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was possible until you were rudely pushed out into the screaming middle of things like a newborn child skydiving chutelessly out of his mother's womb?

Stephen King

#75. As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

Brooke Adams

#76. Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Yanis Varoufakis

#77. I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.

Tom Heinsohn

#78. The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.

William S. Burroughs

#79. The years of us. Our farm and our people. The children, from this distance now almost all completely interchangeable faces and forms, smiling and running and growing so easily into this other thing. So unfettered by time. So shaped by our story, yet somehow so completely untouched by any of it.

Andrew Miller

#80. Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Steven Pinker

#81. I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

Marta McDowell

#82. We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit.

Jay Crownover

#83. Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

Julian Schnabel

#84. Unlike the white, billions of whom shared the same handful of names, all interchangeable in the end, a Comanche name lived and died with a single person.

Philipp Meyer

#85. Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.

Steve Maraboli

#86. Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

Barack Obama