Jot Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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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
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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
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and…
— Charles Dickens
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
— William Penn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Jot Quotes
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