It’s what makes everybody better, that pressure for a spot and competing.
Ah, ‘Pather Panchali’ was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.
If you spend any time in Washington you’ll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
I gravitate toward people with a big, sane, sound mind and big heart with a soft spot for elders, children, and animals.
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.
It’s good to go down because then you know you have to climb back to your old spot. And you can’t be on top and not know that you can only go down.
When I get off the phone with my parents, usually I’m in a good spot.
When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy – like high fantasy – and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!
There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.
As long as everyone is having fun, especially our listeners, that’s what counts. I try to put my team in the best spot possible for them to win and to deliver a great show to our listeners.
You talk about winning championships, well championships are won by 12 guys, the organization, being in the right spot at the right time.
If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You’re drafting a guy because you think he’s worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you’re also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you’re going to say, ‘This guy’s a backup,’ – really? That doesn’t make any sense to me.
My feelings are ‘Godspeed, John Glenn.’ But I feel badly that he took a spot away from a young astronaut who had probably waited three or four years for that slot. He’s already had his ticker-tape parade.
Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you’ll accomplish.
But here’s the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, ‘This isn’t the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don’t feel happy.’
Not too many people are – were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
I very much like Christopher Kane. He actually did a work placement with me, and you could spot his talent straight away.
You can’t take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.
There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
I can only say that I’ve found a wonderful spot at Borussia Dortmund, where I can play football. I feel comfortable here.
I describe in ‘Chimpanzee Politics’ how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two players that, the way I see it, can have a spot amongst the best of all time.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be ‘oh, she’s got a spot on her face, she’s having a bad day’. That can be quite cruel.
I want to take that top spot in WWE, and I’m gunning for number one.
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
Performance poetry is not one genre. Some chant, sing and dance. Some stand rooted to the spot and stare. Some chat their way in and out of their poems like stand-ups. Some confess, some rage. Some play with words, some talk plain. The point is, it’s live and in the moment.
I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.
When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there’s something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
People didn’t stop me before for a guest spot that I did on ‘Smallville.’ Nothing against ‘Smallville,’ but people didn’t freak out in traffic to tell me they love my show.
You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you’re doing certain things. You’re learning as you’re going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.
Channel 4 know I’m messed up. But they’ve got a soft spot for me.
My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers – I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.
The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest – not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
I love vintage shopping, but my secret spot for great tees and casual stuff is Trico Field. They have the cutest kids’ clothes, too!
For me, for every single job, I don’t care if it is a reading, I don’t care if it is a guest spot on a TV show, or a film. I always get the heebie jeebies.
Brexit wasn’t the European people’s first cry of revolt. In 2005, France and the Netherlands held referendums about the proposed European Union constitution. In both countries, opposition was massive, and other governments decided on the spot to halt the experiment for fear the contagion might spread.
In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.
While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they’ve done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
If you have one guy taking all of the shots, you’re obviously not playing very fast, because you have to slow it down and wait for him to get to his spot in the offense. But when you just want the best shot possible, a lot of different people are going to get the ball.
You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.
I have a soft spot for ‘Wind of Change’ because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie – very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.
When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.
My uncle was an Elvis impersonator – his name was Perry, and he went by ‘Elvis Perry’ – and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act.
I had told my agents that I didn’t want to do television. I can’t believe I had that gall, looking back on it. I would never condescend to do TV, and then ‘Taxi’ called up for a guest spot in the first season. And my common sense kind of took over, I guess.
My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It’s a good, safe spot to start, you know?
There is a big dining table at In Sung hyung’s house. That’s our hangout spot, and we drink teas and chat.
We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.
I’m a quarterback. I don’t need to score the touchdown. I just need to spot the pass.
I remember, the first time I played a parent was – I did a guest spot on ‘Veronica Mars,’ and they were like, ‘OK, and this is your daughter,’ and there’s this little girl standing there. And I remember thinking, ‘OK, this is weird… I guess I’m old enough to have a daughter.’
