Michael Palin and Paul Theroux are my travelling icons. I have a soft spot for Joanna Lumley. I’d love to go on an adventure with her.
Enforcing trade deals is spot on. Acting in the interest of American workers is correct. But large-scale tariffs are a terrible idea.
I was in the spot where you work your butt off to get to: the fourth round of the U.S. Open against Roger Federer on Labor Day. That’s why you work so hard in this game and sacrifice so much – to get to that position.
I have a spot on the horizon that I’m trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramedies. First of all, there’s really not a big market for them. Second of all, it’s like cracking a diamond. You’ve got to do it right.
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can’t wait for the muse, shouldn’t need peace and quiet, and isn’t entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.
We cannot make our sole goal the eighth spot, the eighth seed.
Sometimes with good writers you don’t spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
There’s a bright spot in every dark cloud.
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
I feel like I’ve gotten myself comfortable making beats in front of people, so like, if I’m in a big room of people, I’m not like, nervous. I wanna be able to make beats on the spot.
One of my biggest gripes with wrestling in the last decade is it has seen a lot of silly, goofy characters. I feel like every other match is a comedy spot, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but I think if there is a comedy spot, it should be special.
I rarely ever do anything crazy, I really like to be careful to stay in a safe spot, I don’t want to do anything, like, insane. I have a lot of people around me to make sure I don’t do anything crazy.
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
I think young people can spot when people believe what they are saying and when people aren’t believing what they are saying, and when I was a kid, I really did believe what Ric Flair and Randy Savage and Bret Hart said in their promos. I think there has to be some believability.
Coming from a dance background, I was in competitions every single weekend, so I’ve been put on the spot since I was eight years old. When I first got into singing and went on tour, it kind of just felt like home, because I’d been there so many times.
The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.
The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not as pronounced as almost anyone else’s.
I’m the only person who’s ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.
I feel like I’m trying to change basketball; being a center, being able to play both sides of the ball and being able to pass as well as I can, that’s a difference-maker on a team, especially at the center spot, so it’s respect at all levels.
Cancer is something if you spot in the first few stages, it can be cured.
By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
I know where TNT’s sweet spot is, and when I read ‘Perception,’ I thought, ‘This is a chance to play a fascinating, fun, challenging character but still within the realm of something that will sit very well with ‘The Closer’ and ‘Major Crimes’ and the other shows there.’
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn’t care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
Every time the Houston Texans play at home, DeAndre Hopkins’ mother, Sabrina Greenlee, sits in the same spot in the end zone, close enough to the field to hear the ball smack against the turf.
To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie’s where it’s just worn out from my pinky going back and forth over the wood over all these years. I got Willie Nelson to sign that spot on my guitar. I’m a huge fan of him.
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I’m skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I’m really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.
The way I’ve always dealt with disappointment or challenges in my life is to find the bright spot and focus on it.
For my father, he didn’t know what ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ was. He didn’t know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the ‘Law & Order’ TNT promo spot, he thought, ‘Wow, my son has made it.’
When I’m shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot – new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can’t do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.
We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot.
The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution’s case. It’s up to the judge to make sure that they don’t pull any fast ones.
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.
I don’t have one favourite spot – I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do love getting cosy in bed or under blankets on the sofa and writing from there.
Even in the Minor Leagues, I thought you have to go out and earn a spot. Nothing is ever given to you.
Theatres are like sacred places – you hear the stories of previous performances and people who have strived to find that sweet spot on stage and succeeded, and failed, in the same space before you.
Everyone’s been through hell to get where they are, and I’m not gonna let anybody talk down on what I’ve done just cause I didn’t do what Daniel Bryan or your other favorite wrestlers did. Don’t mean I didn’t earn my spot.
It’s not just about showing people what you can do on the ball in those wider positions, it’s about gaining the full understanding of each position and what it takes to get that spot.
When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.
I know I am coming to a big club with a very good goalkeeper. City already have a great goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I will try and compete for the No. 1 spot.
To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn’t matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.
Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can’t spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.
In the U.S. system, too often the best player on an under-17 team will be treated like a ‘star’ – not having to work for the ball, being the focus of the offense at all times, etc. – at a time when they should be having to fight tooth and nail for their spot.
When someone around you succeeds, it does not mean they’ve taken that spot from you. What it means is that you are in the atmosphere of someone who is creating.
Keerthy Suresh knows how to improvise and reworks her expression on the spot.
The human foot has bones and muscles and can balance back and forth. If you step and you maybe make a little mistake, your foot can compensate. But if I step in the wrong spot, my foot isn’t going to compensate because it’s just one piece of carbon fiber.
People don’t want to be put on the spot over whether or not they like you, they want to come to that conclusion themselves. It’s ok to let someone know you’re interested, but there’s no need to go any further than that.
Creating a distraction is a skill we should all have. Never take for granted your ability to spot something interesting out of the corner of you eye and take attention away from your thoughtlessness.
