Michael Waltrip Quotes

Everyone is replaceable, including me.

I exist because I am expendable. In all honesty, it's because if I get hurt, I can be replaced.

I'm no different than any other expendable player.

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

In the 11 years I've worked in films, I've realised that no one is indispensable, and that has actually been very comforting to know.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

I don't care whom you take; Chester Allen Arthur will do as well as any other.

I'm just like the rest of the guys. I'm a little different in a lot of ways, but I'm still a player with a number on his back and if I'm unable to produce, they'll find somebody else to fill my spot.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.