#replace

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#began #century #grandiose #idea #inspiration

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#beginning #body #cerebral #condition #image

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conservative #distinguished #enamored #evils #existing

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#adult stem cells #also #cells #certain #difficult

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bogus #celebrates #general #good #good work

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. ↗

— Orson Welles

#christmas #christmas tree #come #died #fall

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#hell #lot #nature #replaces #some

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#american consumer #china #consumer #doubled #economy

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#i #linux #machine #maybe #next