Spot Quotes

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun. (Pablo Picasso)
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. View quote
Pablo Picasso
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. View quote
John Updike
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! View quote
Golda Meir
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. View quote
Thomas Malthus
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. (Emil Cioran)
I spilled spot remover on my dog; now he's gone. View quote
Steven Wright
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. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out. View quote
Larry David
God gave all men all the earth to love but, since our hearts are so small, ordained for each, one spot to be beloved over all. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
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 of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given. View quote
Emily Dickinson
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. View quote
Joseph Hall
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
Three things are to be looked to in a building that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Out, damned spot out, I say. (William Shakespeare)
Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor. View quote
Andrew Johnson
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. View quote
Albert Einstein
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. View quote
Eva Ibbotson