Spot Quotes
1059 Spot quotes by 851 unique authors
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I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how…
— Margaret Atwood
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And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot…
— Jonathan Swift
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Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
— Haruki Murakami
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most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and…
— Maureen Johnson
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We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own…
— Max Frisch
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This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished…
— Albert Einstein
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A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.
— Jim Stovall
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Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's…
— Aleister Crowley
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The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with…
— David Sedaris
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and…
— Margaret Atwood
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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence…
— Jeanette Winterson
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot…
— Harper Lee
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You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
— Ayn Rand
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He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do…
— Karen Chance
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Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?
— Ilona Andrews
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When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's…
— Steven Brust
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Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if…
— Rick Riordan
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Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely…
— Michael Crichton
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pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing…
— Tom Stoppard
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The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that…
— Anita Shreve
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You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but…
— Jasper Fforde
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Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot…
— J.R. Miller
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