I could list HUNDREDS of words I've come up against in the course of my WORK that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I NEVER could find a suitably old-time, archaic or OBSOLETE substitute.

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.'

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 GOVERNMENT must UNDERSTAND that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall DEVELOPMENT outcomes of Indian CITIZENS with 'efficiency gains.'

As the American people have DISCOVERED, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP on the key issues facing our NATION: jobs, runaway spending, and an exploding government debt.

ORGANISATION can NEVER be a SUBSTITUTE for INITIATIVE and for JUDGEMENT.

There's no SUBSTITUTE to HARD WORK.

The COMMUNICATION is in the WORK and WORDS are no SUBSTITUTE for this.

The more TIME you can SPEND in sevens, the BETTER. Time is INVALUABLE; there's no SUBSTITUTE for that.

In FILM, because you know where the ending is, characters can CHANGE, but in TELEVISION, you substitute REVELATION for change, and that can be HARD to pull off.

It is a besetting vice of DEMOCRACIES to substitute public OPINION for law. This is the usual form in which MASSES of men exhibit their TYRANNY.

EVERY schoolteacher will TELL you that there is no SUBSTITUTE for engaged PARENTS in the education of a child.

A terrific exercise is to take a PARAGRAPH of someone's WRITING who has a really strong style, and using their structure, SUBSTITUTE your own words for theirs, and see how they ACHIEVED their effects.

My mother taught US to PLAY baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us SOMETIMES, and she loved us with all her HEART; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the WORLD that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.

When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a SUBSTITUTE for PAY TV in the LIVING ROOM.'