Quotes About Interchangeable
I understood that he did not see the person he was talking to. He had the drifter's inclination to be impervious to names and faces. These were interchangeable components room to room, country to country. He did not talk so much as narrate. He traced a wavy line, his, and there was usually someone willing to be the random body that he told his stories to.
~ Don DeLillo
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Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!
~ Malcolm Lowry
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For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable, expecting material comfort from virtue and moral edification from wealth.
~ Marcel Proust
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Across that time span "Hoover Dam" and "Boulder Dam" were used interchangeably, the preference often depending on the political leanings of the speaker. The matter generated so much confusion and acrimony that in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1947 a letter writer named Frank Romano Sr. was provoked to propose that the structure in Black Canyon be named "Hoogivza Dam.
~ Unknown
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Se sono tuoi, stabilisci tu le regole. A chi importa che cosa ne pensano i giocattoli? Spazza via l'intera famiglia di un giocattolo, poi dagliene una nuova. I bambini giocattolo, come i figli di Giobbe, sono intercambiabili.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Violating the boundaries between life and art to make their material their own was a dangerous way for these filmmakers to work. It was successful for a while, enriching both the life and the art, but as the two became more extravagant and interchangeable, New Hollywood directors lost the detachment of artists, and their lives and art sank into quicksand, joined in a fatal embrace.
~ Unknown
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