The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
An ascot is never a substitute for a well-tied four-in-hand tie or a slightly disheveled bow tie.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
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.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
My father taught me how to substitute realities.
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
The substitute for knowledge is money.
At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.'
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.
I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.
If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.