Spot Quotes
1059 Spot quotes by 851 unique authors
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There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.
— Nathan Fillion
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MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up…
— Nathan Fillion
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I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is…
— John F. Kennedy
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into…
— Joseph Addison
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And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of…
— John Ruskin
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I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
— Damien Hirst
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How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues…
— Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians…
— Harold Rosenberg
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The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their…
— Ari Fleischer
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I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs…
— Frans de Waal
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.
— Mark Shapiro
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Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
— Pierre Alechinsky
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When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of…
— Saint Basil
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I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best…
— Davy Crockett
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The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes…
— Brigham Young
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If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never…
— Brigham Young
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By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or…
— John Muir
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