Spots Quotes - Page 5

• This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

  Tom Vilsack

  Years, Agriculture, Income

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• Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

  Voltaire

  Country, Heart, Bounds

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• 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

  Air, Mind, Balance

  "Fitness Interview With Shaun White". www.foxnews.com. March 08, 2010.

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• I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.

  Shaun White

  Airports, Walks

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• Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Hippie, Looks, Ifs

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• 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

  Emotional, Feelings, Panic

  Stephen King (2016). “Gerald's Game”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

  Philip K. Dick

  Responsibility, Guilt, World

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• The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Eye, Black And White

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.

  Shannon Hale

  Kissing, Want, Way

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• I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Stupid, Imperfection

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Sep 01, 2014

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• Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mediocrity, Shirts

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• From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Confused, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down to turn and see if he was still standing in the driveway watching her. He was. She stopped for just a moment, and they caught each other's eyes. Then he slowly started walking backward toward the house. May couldn't see that well, considering that her eyes were still a little blurry and he was far away, but it looked like he was smiling.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eye, House, Six

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• A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Uplifting

  Jim Stovall (2010). “The Ultimate Gift: A Novel”, p.9, David C Cook

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• Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Brain, Say Anything

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.250, Weiser Books

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• I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Children

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.183, Penguin

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• The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

  David Sedaris

  Christmas, Years, Evening

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• Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Distance, Farewell

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

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• 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.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, People, Library

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Adults

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.

  Ayn Rand

  Self, World, Soil

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.234, Hamilton Books

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• Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?

  Ilona Andrews

  Encouragement, Thanks, Scream

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.108, Penguin

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• When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

  Steven Brust

  Life, Mean, Cutting

  Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.242, Penguin

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• Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Games, Layers

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• Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

  Michael Crichton

  Blind Spots, Medicine, People

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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