Placeholder Quotes

#1. It feels like I'm an actor in an Italian movie from the '60s, saying the placeholder lines into the camera, waiting for the real ones that come later.

Lauren Graham

#2. If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.

Bryant McGill

#3. And I didn't need telepathy, either. Ask any woman you're ever had a relationship with: I guarantee she knew she was second best. A placeholder, till the one you actually wanted came home.

Tana French

#4. I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Bucky Pope

#5. The buildings of the great city of Placeholder sprawled either side of the dark crack of the river like boils on buttocks. There

Barnaby Yard

#6. Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.

Marisa Silver

#7. [Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is the hidden placeholder in the Barthesian equation.

James Welling

#8. I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.

Ray Anderson

#9. The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

Max Beerbohm

#10. as if ye have faith and it shall be given to you.

Jess Walter

#11. Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

A. J. Jacobs

#12. I peered at his writing, but I could make nothing of it.
Then I saw why, and my soul chilled like marble.
His writing was running left to right. Not the words in reverse order, but the letter themselves. All of it. It was mirror writing- to be read by the Devil.

Theresa Breslin

#13. Love, love again.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Destruction CAN be beautiful!

Mick Foley

#15. We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Alan Ball

#16. Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.

Werley Nortreus

#17. Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

Douglas Coupland

#18. It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.

Julia Green