Substitutions Quotes

#1. The jazz chord substitutions in a country song ... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

Brian Setzer

#2. You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured.
"Such unfortunate language." Warner shakes his head. "Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

Bobby Robson

#4. I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions")

Michael Marshall Smith

#5. I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

Catherine Crier

#6. Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Chuck Norris

#7. If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.

Hristo Stoichkov

#8. Mm-mm, no, thank you, no, I don't want an enchilaaadaaa. Nor do I want a burr-eye-to. Or a tay-co. Or any other bizarre, unneccessary vowel substitutions.

Greg Proops

#9. I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.
There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. ("Substitutions")

Michael Marshall Smith

#10. On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

Jack Rowell

#11. The general laws of nature are to be expressed by equations that hold true for all systems of coordinates, that is they are covariant with respect to any substitutions whatever."85 Einstein

Walter Isaacson

#12. Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

Nancy Kress

#13. The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear.
"How to saw people in half?"
"That too."
"Nice.

Catherine Fisher

#14. I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

Zach Galifianakis

#15. The mind works sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

Daniel Levine

#16. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#17. Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Katharine Hepburn

#18. I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.

Brett Lee

#19. Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Owen Feltham

#20. I am Alvarr sen Danyd, and I call you in Teganne's name. I need you. Come!

Cate Rowan

#21. But I am still shocked. I did not know Boons are capable of violence.

Bree Despain

#22. It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

Bruce Sterling