No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

- Edward Hopper

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

- Jerome Hines

I don't want to replace anyone, especially Charlie Sheen.

- John Stamos

I think that we need, you know, Sen. Vitter is quite conservative, and I think we need to replace a good strong conservative with another conservative.

- John Fleming

There's nothing that can replace the feeling of winning.

- Joe Torre

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

- Jill Lepore

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

- Jerry Seinfeld

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

- Hans Frank

The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

- Eminem

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

- Alfred Hitchcock

I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

- Eddie Van Halen

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

- David Gilmour

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

- Brent Scowcroft

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

- Brigham Young

There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

- Adam Braun

If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?

- Ace Frehley

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

- Ayn Rand

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

- Andrew Cuomo

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

- Alfred Hitchcock