Quotes About Placer

#1. Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.

Denis Diderot

#2. The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

Eliphas Levi

#3. Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

Eric Hoffer

#4. Apparently when you only have one day, you can say anything and live to tell.

Gayle Forman

#5. Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.

Joseph Addison

#6. Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ...

Van Morrison

#7. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he's facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

David Josiah Brewer

#9. Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally.

Margaret Atwood

#10. People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.

Anne Rice

#11. For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

Wole Soyinka

#12. People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Ralph Allen

#13. The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. I'm afraid you may have to put up with some more," I said, looking at my test tube. A thin line of precipitate had formed between the antiserum and the sample from the crime scene. "It looks like it's human blood." Deborah

Jeff Lindsay

#15. If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

Bill Hybels

#16. People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

Judith Martin

#17. A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.

Richard Adams

#18. Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.

Rick Riordan