It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom…

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

— Marianne Moore

I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep…

— Suzi Quatro

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

— Frank Waters

“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?”

— Charlotte Brontë

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

— Henry Fielding

Blotting pads are great in case you get sweaty or oily. But don't rub. It's a slow, methodical blot: set the pad on your…

— Jonathan Van Ness

Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.

— Lionel Shriver

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

— Timothy Noah

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they…

— Mary Karr

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more futile perhaps for keeping…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

— Michael Cerveris