Top 100 Spot On Quotes
#1. Focus on your own goals and how to achieve them. No one took your spot, there's room for all of us.
Amy Schumer
#2. The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.
John Green
#3. The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
Alexander Smith
#4. Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?
Joseph Conrad
#5. Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.
Thomas Harris
#6. I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
Jessica Biel
#7. I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.
Rupert Grint
#8. You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.
Louis Oosthuizen
#9. The next two sources of influence that routinely act on you are equally easy to spot. The people who surround you both motivate and enable your habits.
Kerry Patterson
#10. Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.
Diane Watson
#11. I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
Kate Clinton
#12. I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.
Charlie Kimball
#13. Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles and hurling salt everywhere.
Gregg Henry
#14. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Alexander Pope
#15. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.
Brent Jones
#16. I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.
Jennifer Egan
#17. The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.
Jonathan Hyde
#18. Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
Augustus William Hare
#19. It's times like this I am glad I don't look people in the eye. If I did, surely they would die on the spot from the contempt shooting out of mine.
Jodi Picoult
#20. I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
Baltasar Kormakur
#21. Kate was reading through a long diary entry about the first time Katherine
and Matthew had met. Katherine had apparently fallen deeply in lust on the very spot. The entry used the words "delectable,""buttocks," and "I want to bite them.
Lauren James
#22. It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absorbed head-on. When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hurt you.
Richard Powers
#23. All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.
Kurt Eichenwald
#24. And then he winked.
Jeez, I thought my heart would explode on the spot. The last time a guy winked at me was years ago, and that'd been a creepy mall Santa.
Veronica Wolff
#25. The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.
Ian Brown
#26. The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
Freya Stark
#27. I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
#28. And holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.
Laini Taylor
#29. If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you on the spot or electrify you for your whole life with a magnetically attractive, plaintive craving and sorrow.
Boris Pasternak
#30. Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
Chris Lilley
#31. Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.
Cath Crowley
#32. Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will.
Carlos Castaneda
#33. Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
Herbert Hoover
#34. I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.
Johnny Knoxville
#35. To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.
Frederick Lenz
#36. It was the greatest stroke of good fortune he had ever encountered in life. In other words, he had finally worked his way up to the lowest spot on the totem pole.
Haruki Murakami
#37. All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Walt Whitman
#38. I went back to my own innocent little chores and sat in my office as the fall drew imperceptibly on and the earth leaned on its axis and shouldered the spot I occupied a little out of the direct, billowing, crystalline, consuming blaze of the enormous sun.
Robert Penn Warren
#39. So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the damned.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#40. I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I'm in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.
David Millar
#41. If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.
Stephen King
#42. Some feeling had started in my stomach and was traveling up to my face, and I knew that when it got there I would turn bright red and hear the ocean, which is what happens when I get put on the spot. If I don't cry, I turn red and hear the ocean. It's a lose-lose situation.
Rebecca Stead
#43. little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family stranded and dependent on themselves for their survival. Facing starvation,
Susan Kiernan-Lewis
#44. I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.
Bill Moseley
#45. I feel like I got a good jump on the ball. I turned my head and picked a spot out to run to. I was able to look back at the ball real quick again and it fell right into my glove.
Trot Nixon
#46. As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It's nice.
Tom Felton
#48. She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.
Rick Riordan
#49. If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.
Paul Watson
#50. The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
Jose Andres
#51. In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.
Kim Jee-woon
#52. The fat woman's expression implied that she would go crazy on the spot if anybody did any more thinking.
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO NIBBLE ON
THE INSIDES OF THEIR OWN CHEEKS.
IV'E SEEN AN OTHERWISE LOVELY GIRL
CONTORT HER FACE TO REACH A FAVORITE SPOT.
THERE ARE BIT LINES WHERE REPEATED NIPS
HAVE BUILT RIDGES OF SCAR TISSUE.
Jenny Holzer
#54. Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.
Marvin Ammori
#55. Know what the best thing about morning sex is?" Caesar snorted and pinched Nate's hip.
"Sex?"
"No," Nate laughed, "nobody has to sleep on the wet spot.
James Buchanan
#56. Heavens, no," Wax said. "If I approved of half the thngs Wayne does, Harmony would probably strike me on the spot.
Brandon Sanderson
#57. As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.
Bob Hope
#58. Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
Adam Gopnik
#59. Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
Ernie Els
#60. There was a day on the set of Iron Man where I said, "I remember some of this stuff. I definitely had some Iron Man books. But, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a little bit of a weak spot for me."
Clark Gregg
#61. Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life
W. H. Auden
#62. On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.
John Lanchester
#63. Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.
Kate DiCamillo
#64. Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
Eldridge Cleaver
#65. Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
Peter Kropotkin
#66. MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up Sputnik, and the U.S. would not be outdone. I admire that about the American spirit. There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.
Nathan Fillion
#67. Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?
Rosamund Hodge
#68. Or maybe aliens had abducted him - yeah, that was what happened. Knowing Evan, he'd spot the anal probe and want to try it out on them.
Finn Marlowe
#69. Nothing helps. I'm a black spot on the chest X-ray of the universe.
Tim Tharp
#70. Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!
Alane Ferguson
#72. As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.
Dean Heller
#73. Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness ... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.
Shaun White
#74. The safety of the country is at stake ... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat ... No faltering can be tolerated today.
Joseph Joffre
#75. Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.
Stephen Richards
#76. I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.
Paul Putner
#77. I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.
Adolf Hitler
#78. Mr. President: We, women political prisoners of the Soviet Union, congratulate you on your reelection to the spot of President of the USA. We look with hope to your country which is on the road of FREEDOM and respect for HUMAN RIGHTS. We wish you success on this road.
Ronald Reagan
#79. But it is difficult to tell whether something is an oppurtunity or a trap when you are put on the spot.
Olivia Sudjic
#80. 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
#81. When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.
Rob Brown
#82. All I can tell you is that we have to re-live the gospel every time we pray. We have to re-live it every time we go to church. We have to re-live the gospel on the spot and ask ourselves what we are doing in the courtroom. We should not be there. The court is adjourned.
Timothy Keller
#83. No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.
Ryan Sheckler
#84. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
Ann Brashares
#85. It is that peculiar soldiers' humor which springs from the experience of shared misery and often translates poorly to those not on the spot and enduring the same hardship.
Steven Pressfield
#86. Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.
Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.
#87. If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it's really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.
Michael Bastian
#88. Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.
Celia Thaxter
#89. Bones snorted. Why didn't it occur to them that they were doing something so appalling, if they were caught, they'd be executed on the spot? It's not my fault that vampires have a fairer form of punishment for rapists than humans do.
Jeaniene Frost
#90. I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#91. As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.
Eric Hill
#92. Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#93. The chance had come - it was an extraordinary one - on the day she first met Densher; and it was to the girl's lasting honour that she knew on the spot what she was in the presence of.
Henry James
#94. Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt - it never comes off.
Haruki Murakami
#95. Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.
Wendy Oldfield
#96. People look forward to weekends for connections, revisions and separations even though many of these activities are accompanied by bruises and even a spot of blood, for excitement runs high on Friday or Saturday.
Toni Morrison
#97. Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
Richard Smalley
#98. The infant was standing on a spot in someone else's story, during a moment of her own.
Lemony Snicket
#99. 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
#100. Don't be afraid, your majesty ... Don't be afraid, your majesty, the blood has long since drained away into the earth and grapes have grown on the spot.
Mikhail Bulgakov
