I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, ‘Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that’… the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.
We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
I have a soft spot for cashmere – even though that is not a particularly sustainable fabric, I do invest in quality, so it is sustainable in the sense that it is not just throwaway fashion and I keep it for a long, long time.
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
I think different guys have different priorities. For me, it was always important to be in one spot, one city.
It’s harder and harder to find a spot within a day’s drive of Los Angeles with enough vacant grass or even sand or dirt to stake a tent on.
Any time you get to compete for the championship in a professional spot, it’s just a magic thing.
I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they’re not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.
I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.
I’ve kind of always had this soft spot in my heart for the homeless community, mainly homeless kids who live on the streets.
Gemini is a spot bitcoin exchange. To use it, you sign up with Gemini.com and undergo the initial standard review process, similar to what you’d encounter at a traditional bank. Once you’re through, you can ACH or wire cash to the platform, then begin buying and selling bitcoin.
I never prepare. I think that’s completely overrated. It’s a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don’t really believe in preparation.
The passing game is timing and trust, expecting those guys to be in the right spot at the right time.
I have a soft spot for Iowa.
My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.
I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I’m in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.
I’m just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.
You never create a scene around the Easter egg. The Easter egg is always just, ‘Oh, there’s an opportunity for something that the fans will enjoy if they can spot it.’
In a normal job, if there was a chance for you to get promoted, are you going to go, ‘No, no, no – I want to stay in the exact same spot I’m in now.’ Or, are you going to strive and move forward and be better?
Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
I can always spot an Australian queen by her high, high end wig. Australian drag queens have the best hair in the world – the best.
It’s certainly not just a spot opinion; it’s something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.
As a nation, we spent eight billion hours sitting in our cars, waiting for lights to change, for the driver ahead to sneak into that parking spot, for an accident to be cleared.
You never know when you’re gonna come across a sick skate spot, or a skate park you wanna stop at, so as long as I’m not injured, I’m always gonna have my board on me, and my skate shoes, and whatever I need to go out there and get a little session in.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in – it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.
I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it’s always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.
One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit – boom! – and I’m down and out. What a way to die!
For a big man, it’s a little different because you don’t always have the ball. Not handling the ball and playing pick and roll and doing all that where you can find your spot. You’re kind of depending on others a lot.
Support other women! We are taught to be competitive with other women, to vie with them for the ‘girl spot’ in a group or job. Anything that helps an individual woman is good for all of us! Love and support your friends!
The lightweight title will be mine, but I’m looking for multiples and I am looking for that best pound for pound spot.
I have a soft spot for charities that help children.
You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.
‘See Spot run!’ is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
If I didn’t have competition and I didn’t have people trying to take my spot, then it can make someone lazy. So it does the exact opposite. It motivates me.
The first acting part I ever got was a guest spot on ‘Chicago Hope’ playing a security guard. I thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be cool.’ But a little bit later, I got a vague part on this short-lived show called ‘Marshall Law’ with Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. It was a poor man’s ‘Rush Hour.’
On family trips and vacations, I remember walking around with my little sister and making funny songs on the spot.
It’s a competitive business, and everybody wants to be the best. And when there’s a new guy coming in, and there’s buzz about him, ‘Oh, he was a pro football player,’ you instantly have people that don’t like you because they’re afraid you’re going to take their spot.
I think I’ve kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.
The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It’s a cocktail and dinner. I know I’m a tired old geezer, but there you are.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you’d have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.
In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.
They wasn’t gonna give you nothin’. I didn’t care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot… You cheat me and I’m gonna get me some money, too.
I can’t be someone that I’m not. And people can spot when someone’s being fake, when somebody’s not being real, when somebody’s sugar-coating stuff. People don’t like that.
You gotta put me on a team with LeBron or Chris Paul or someone and I can just spot up in the corner and let them go to work, kick it to me.
I’m going to have to work it, compete for that starting spot, compete for that job. I’m willing to come in and work, willing to compete and go at people in practice so I can have that ability to start in the starting lineup.
In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.
Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we’re seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city – a city of people, you know.
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.
My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a ‘blue spot grand’ they called it… it used up an entire rainforest to make this thing, and it had all these records in it. Some were rock, some were reggae, but a lot was blues – Ray Charles, Chuck Berry and all that stuff.
