Quotation Explorer - 'Spots'

Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom. - William Giraldi
A man's weakest spots are almost always closest to his passions. - Auliq Ice
[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) - P.G. Wodehouse
F(r)iction is the best of everything we’ve ever loved. F(r)iction is experimental. F(r)iction is strange. F(r)iction pokes the soft spots, touches nerves most would rather remain protected. F(r)iction is secrets and truths and most importantly—stories. F(r)iction is weird, in every respect. - Tethered by Letters
The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover. - Susan Straight
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. - George Matthew Adams
I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots. - Mark Twain
Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life. - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation. - Jean Thompson
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. - Mary MacCracken
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? - Bible
The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love - Helen Shucman
I love it when there’s nothingLeft to see but tiny spots of what’s still lightStories piercing the night. - Anna Jae
Small Moth...She's slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again. - Sarah Lindsay
Ascension is the triumph of mastered emotions; a process of gaining clarity in the darkness of blind spots and struggles, allowing you to perceive with the karmic intelligence of the Soul. - Ka Chinery
all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots. - Sanober Khan
At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry. - Sheryl Sandberg
Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light. - Wayne W. Dyer
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. - Steve Allen
As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots! - Assegid Habtewold
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. - Stephen King
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