Quotes of Spotted - somelinesforyou

“ Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies, Til the dappled dawn doth rise. ”

- John Milton

“ I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. ”

- Bible

“ I discovered myself! ”

- Lauren Hutton

“ And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast. ”

- Bible

“ Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. ”

- John Ciardi

“ We discovered that the series really wants to be a comedy more than a drama. ”

- David Kelley

“ Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. ”

- Bible

“ I softly sink into the bath of sleep:With eyelids shut, I see around me closeThe mottled, violet vapors of the deep,That wraps me in repose. ”

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

“ June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial. ”

- Lucy Larcom

“ From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. ”

- Robert Browning

“ The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ”

- Unknown

“ The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. ”

- Thomas Robert Dewar

“ Goals are discovered, not made. ”

- Richard J. Foster

“ So-called good advice is always served with compliments and sprinkled with sugar. I don't like sugar. ”

- Victoria Wolff

“ Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. ”

- Steven Wright

“ The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress — these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ For character too is a process and an unfolding… among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations? ”

- George Eliot
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