Jot Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. — Eldridge Cleaver
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and… — Bill Gates
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law...… — Joseph LeConte
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and… — Charles Dickens
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must… — Gregory Rabassa
No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of… — James E. Talmage
A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the… — James Keller
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. — John Milton
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work. — Chris Cooper
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand… — Paul Washer
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on… — Benjamin Franklin
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night:… — William Shakespeare
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. — William Penn
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means.… — Richard Dawkins
I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot… — John Corey Whaley
For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I… — James Rollins
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth… — John Milton
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given… — Henri Matisse
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends,… — Asghar Farhadi
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which… — Stephen Leacock

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