Quotes with on-the-spot

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  • Robert Montgomery Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Joseph Hall A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver 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
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Ben Folds But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman 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
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Alexander Pope Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Josh Billings Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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