Spots Quotes - Page 28

• I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

  Mark Twain

  Born, Relation, Modest

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.127, Createspace Independent Pub

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• It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

  Sue Townsend

  Suicide, People, Mad

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Eye, Men

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• Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Eye, Simple, Views

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.39

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• Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Spirit, Affection, Concealing

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• June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Dark, June, World

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• Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Brother, Legs, Firsts

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• We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Thinking, Blind Spots

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• The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Men, Thinking, Conceit

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.135

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• Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

  Shane Warne

  Wall, Dozen, Bowling

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• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough. And I'm trying to earn my spot on the team. I'm trying to earn a starting spot. I'm trying to become a complete midfielder who attacks, who defends. So that's the mindset.

  Carli Lloyd

  Team, Dirty, Play

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

  Nikki Sixx

  Player, Guitar, Lines

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• When I'm doing shows I don't need much from a city. All I'm looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks.

  Hannibal Buress

  Couple, Cities, Meals

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Games, Shots

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

  Leslie Ford

  Men, Important, Groups

  Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.109, Wildside Press LLC

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• As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

  Robert Boyle

  Bible, Stars, Ignorance

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• I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.

  Martha Bolton

  Waiting, Way, Easy

  Martha Bolton (2010). “Ha! GIFT: humor for the lighter side of life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Fall, Light, Mind

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “A Daughter of the Land”, p.245, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sweet, Horror, Film

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• There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Physicians, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.801, Modern Library

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• Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
  Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
  Man, but for that no action could attend,
  And, but for this, were active to no end:
  Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
  Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
  Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Men, Self

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

  John Milton

  Men, Evil, Mind

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.321

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• I have a soft spot for cashmere - even though that is not a particularly sustainable fabric, I do invest in quality, so it is sustainable in the sense that it is not just throwaway fashion and I keep it for a long, long time.

  Suzy Amis

  Fashion, Long, Quality

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• When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

  Molly Ringwald

  Book, Turning 40, Term

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• My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

  Richard Schiff

  Beautiful, Rainy Day, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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