I Am Not A Placeholder Quotes & Sayings

It's much easier to make a Superman or Batman film than a Green Lantern film. — Martin Campbell

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

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? — Sam Worthington

I love it when my quotes are blown up really big! — Murdoc Niccals

Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder. — Marisa Silver

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

[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

In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the air and the ground all the time, that usually disperses and turns chaotic in our busy-ness and distractedness and moodiness. Artists channel it, corral it, make it visible to the rest of us. The best works of art are like semaphores of our experience, signaling what we didn't know was true but do now. — Anne Lamott

I've been such an outsider my whole life. — Thom Mayne

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

A curiosity: my name, Rem, will someday come to mean a line of text in a language spoken only by machines. Specifically, it will mean a line that the machines can safely ignore
one that's only there as a mnemonic, a placeholder, for the people who give the machines their orders. A REM line might say something like "this bit is a self-contained sub loop" or "Steve Perlman in Marketing is a shit." The program as a whole rolls on past and around the REM lines, ignores them completely as it takes its shape, moves through its pre-ordained sequences, unfolds its wonders. My mother named me well. — Louise Carey

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

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

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature! — Karen Walker

Drawing is deception. — M.C. Escher