Top 100 Spot Quotes
#1. I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.
John Corwin
#2. Anyway, Angua seemed to have taken this case personally. She always had a soft spot for the underdog.
So did Vimes. You had to. Not because they were pure or noble, because they weren't. You had to be on the side of underdogs because they weren't overdogs.
Terry Pratchett
#3. For when you are on the spot, disorders are detected in their beginnings and remedies can be readily applied; but when you are at a distance, they are not heard of until they have gathered strength and the case is past cure.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#4. Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.
W.K. Marriott
#6. My mind is in the gutter so often, I have an assigned parking spot.
Duncan Spencer
#7. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. Think about the whole Biblical story of Mary. She wakes up and sees something with a lion, eagle, and human face that wants to inseminate her with the Holy Seed. She's practically a saint just for not killing herself on the spot.
Thomm Quackenbush
#9. Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
Brian P. Cleary
#11. I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.
Hannah Simone
#12. But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
Bruce Nauman
#13. When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'
Johnny Gimble
#14. Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I'll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.
Blaize Clement
#15. I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.
Jay Leno
#16. God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
Mary Baker Eddy
#17. I had chosen a blind spot at the end of the plumbers' shop to make my escape bid. Under my overalls I wore extra jeans, vest, t-shirt and I had a donkey jacket on that I intended to throw over the razor wire. Hopefully the extra clothes would stop the razor wire from cutting me.
Stephen Richards
#18. I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
Ben Gibbard
#19. Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,
Our love where we spent our toil,
And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
We pledge to our native soil.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
Rudyard Kipling
#20. Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot ...
Farid Al-Din Attar
#21. It had soaked in on him at last, the spot he was in. Soaked clear through a quart of booze until it hit him where he lived and rubbed the place raw.
Jim Thompson
#22. If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.
Emil Cioran
#23. As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
John Locke
#24. English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
Rabih Alameddine
#25. Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he'd marooned her.
Dave Barry
#26. The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.
Randy Falco
#27. Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
Oscar Robertson
#28. 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.
Thomas Malthus
#29. Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#30. The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.
Anne Perry
#31. There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.
Ben Goldacre
#32. Can't take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can't give up. Ever.
James Dashner
#33. I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.
Mary Shelley
#34. Copy my favorite moves and my Tour-proven setup positions, and you'll start catching it on the sweet spot every time, with every club in your bag.
Sergio Garcia
#35. 'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
Greg Iles
#36. You're pulling out and someone says, 'hey, you know what, go ahead and take my spot', miracle.
DeVon Franklin
#37. Mister went to his spot before the fireplace and demanded that it be made warm.
Jim Butcher
#38. She's the psychic but she can't see what's coming up: the intersection of hurt and more hurt. The blind spot there is a killer.
Cath Crowley
#39. I have such a soft spot for the really cheesy zombie movies, but if I had to pick a really good one, I'd have to go with an actual TV show and say 'The Walking Dead'.
Jennifer Armentrout
#40. ... she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.
Sharon Kay Penman
#41. And motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief
Richelle Mead
#42. There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.
Suzanne Fields
#43. only takes one weirdo to spot you inside and decide to go and get you.
Caroline Kepnes
#44. I managed to find a spot where we had the wind from astern, a steep head sea on our starboard quarter and the tide race through the narrows at the same time. A few hours of that and our fierce horse soldiers were like little lambs - sick little lambs.
John Flanagan
#45. The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.
David Douglas
#46. There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
Elinor Ostrom
#47. Sofia was ice. She was ripples. She was the kind of person who'd sneak into the zoo after hours just to paint an extra spot on a giraffe's neck. She was stubborn. She was lovely. She was the autumn leaf that refused to fall.
Michael Ebner
#48. There was, Katherine speculated, no possible way of concealing his Englishness, or any English person's Englishness for that matter. You could spot them immediately - pasty white; muffin bellied; Rorschached with quasi-Celtic tattoos.
Sam Byers
#49. The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share. Although it will always be a cutthroat competition for every spot on every team, our companionship transcends these competitive rivalries.
Jennifer Rhines
#50. [On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.
Mary Mapes Dodge
#51. I don't know exactly what it is, but it looks like interconnected websites where people show their photos and write about everything going on in their lives, like whether they found a parking spot or what they ate for breakfast."
"But why?" Josh asks.
Jay Asher
#52. I'm intrigued. If not by beauty, how then does one spot the garden-variety nobleman?"
"Easily," she said. "One need only look for the promise of beauty not quite fulfilled, a nose too large, eyes a bit too closer together, or ears ready to set sail.
Kristen Callihan
#53. Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees us up. It's nice not to be strapped down to a certain spot when you're trying to put on a show.
Tyler Joseph
#55. The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
Donald Barthelme
#56. She could already feel small waves of her juices fall from her newly-broken pussy, making a damp spot under her ass.
Lola Newmar
#57. Peace is bald eagle
Flying and flying over the trees
In search for a spot
Under the blue sky
To build her nest to care.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Hey, you have a soft spot for the mortal ones. A fascination with all the charming things they do while listening to the tick, tick, tick of their own looming lives. That's fine, that's good, everyone needs a hobby.
Rachel Hawthorne
#59. By collecting things in one spot, you can also compare items that are similar in design, making it easier to decide whether you want to keep them.
Marie Kondo
#60. I guess it's true what they say: it's really hard to spot someone dressed in meat, slinking along a meat wall. - Sadia: The 8th Circle of Heck
Dale E. Basye
#61. You've been fucked before, huh?" he asked, angling her so that his piercing slid over her G-spot when he entered. "By the time I'm done, you'll have reassessed your definition
Cherrie Lynn
#62. I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.
Freddy Adu
#63. Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book." Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. "And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.
Lita Burke
#64. You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.
Joe Sakic
#65. 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
#66. If you force people to express an opinion, they are likely to create one just to get through your form. The problem is that opinions created on the spot are variable, as many opinion pollsters know to their cost.
Caroline Jarrett
#67. If a player doesn't understand what's happening, he gets frustrated. If he knows it all (or thinks he does), he gets bored. The sweet spot called "fun" exists between these two extremes.
Anonymous
#68. Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Abraham Lincoln
#69. One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!
Charles R. Swindoll
#70. I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot;
There flowers or weeds at will may
grow, So I behold them not
George Gordon Byron
#71. Uh-huh. Could be,' I said. It was a spot for a paragraph of lucid prose. Henry Clarendon IV would have obliged. I didn't have a damn thing more to say.
Raymond Chandler
#72. Some girls have crazy eyes. You can spot that!
Miles Teller
#73. Thumbs grow into my throat.
I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.
Anne Sexton
#74. If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.
Piper Kerman
#75. What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot ...
Bisco Hatori
#76. You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. Many people decide to improve their habits, they don't begin by looking where their keys are; they begin by looking in an easy spot.
Gretchen Rubin
#78. Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?
Kelley Armstrong
#79. Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics ...
Rob Brezsny
#80. Things move so quickly on set. When you're about to do another take and you have a minute to figure out what you're doing, you just kind of determine how you're going to do it on the spot.
Michael Cera
#81. The Western scientific community, and actually all of us, are in a difficult spot, because in order to maintain our current mode of being, we must ignore a tremendous amount of information.
Cleve Backster
#82. The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
Hugo Chavez
#83. The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.
Sylvia Plath
#85. On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.
Carla H. Krueger
#86. You really know how to make a person sound like a hermit."
"If the sagging spot on the couch fits.
Ottilie Weber
#87. My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
Beth Henley
#88. There might be a space too, for this. The feel of killing, there might be an empty spot just waiting to be filled.
Gillian Flynn
#89. When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.
Wayne Dyer
#90. When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
Huey Lewis
#91. Most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#92. Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.
Tom Crabtree
#93. In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.
Leo Tolstoy
#94. I got up and let Pearl in. She dashed into the room, jumped on the bed, turned around about twelve times, and plumped down hard against Susan, in the spot that until recently had been occupied by me.
Robert B. Parker
#95. In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.
John Ridley
#96. It's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes.
L.M. Montgomery
#97. There was only one thought that settled, as calmly as a cat finding a spot of sun to sleep in. One word that felt inevitable, as they kissed and nibbled and quietly laughed with the delirium of it. Home.
Georgia Clark
#98. They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot ... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
John Lee Hooker
#99. You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.
Dan Jenkins
