Spots Quotes - Page 6

• 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 brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Brain, Say Anything

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.250, Weiser Books

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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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 a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

  David Sedaris

  Christmas, Years, Evening

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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 distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Distance, Farewell

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

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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 like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, People, Library

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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 an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Adults

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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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

  Self, World, Soil

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.234, Hamilton Books

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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 with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?' I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed. 'You shaved my legs?!' Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be.

  Karen Chance

  War, Eye, Doors

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1507, Penguin

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• Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?

  Ilona Andrews

  Encouragement, Thanks, Scream

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.108, Penguin

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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 no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

  Steven Brust

  Life, Mean, Cutting

  Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.242, Penguin

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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 I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Games, Layers

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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 people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

  Michael Crichton

  Blind Spots, Medicine, People

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Fall, Mean

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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, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beer, Complaining, Shrimp

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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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 your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

  Tom Stoppard

  Song, Real, Mean

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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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 makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.

  Anita Shreve

  Party, Car, Looks

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• I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

  Jim Butcher

  Couple, Museums, Fields

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.525, Penguin

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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 it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wings, Blood, Bird

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

  Jasper Fforde

  Morning, Fall, Reality

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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 of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.

  J.R. Miller

  Depressing, Circles, Atmosphere

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• I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.998, Penguin

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• Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Morning, Sun, Edges

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.152, Penguin Group

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• Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.

  Nick Hornby

  Men, Worry, Looks

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• You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

  Robert Harris

  Winning, Men, Fool

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium”, Hutchinson Radius

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• When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

  Alice Sebold

  Light, Dust, Yellow

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