Spot Quotes - page 23

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? (Alexander Herzen)
On this very spot a great city once stood, It oozed with evil but it felt so good... ~ City. View quote
Steve Kilbey
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. View quote
Eric Idle
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law. View quote
William Tyndale
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. View quote
Tom Hanks
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. View quote
Molly Ringwald
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful. View quote
Martha Stewart
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections. View quote
Mary Baker Eddy
At my moment, there was always a token black person. And in the '70s I became that token black person. It brings out the worst in people when they think there's only one spot, where for everyone else there are lots of spots. (Beverly Johnson)
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. View quote
Camille Paglia
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening. Every spot is seen, every chasm revealed. View quote
Margaret Fuller
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces. View quote
Will Self
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. View quote
Mary McCarthy
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. View quote
Taylor Swift
If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house. View quote
Taylor Swift
As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration. View quote
Christina Romer
My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in. View quote
Jack White
Are you alright?" "No, I bumped my head." Rubbing the spot, I looked dazedly around the bare hallway. "What did I bang it on?" I demanded ungrammatically. "head." he said, rather grumpily, I thought. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship. View quote
Gabriel Iglesias
Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. View quote
David Petraeus
I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away. View quote
Shaun White
Hamilton, you're like a walking tumor. Not exactly; it's a big deal when you spot a tumor. View quote
Greg Giraldo