#blot

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#could #discreetly #got #half #known

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything. ↗

— Julie Walters

#alcoholic #anything #being #blotting #early

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through. ↗

— Keith Waterhouse

#day #every #every day #i #leaf

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#earth #i #out #planet #planet earth

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#children #clowns #drink #living #out

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#because #becomes #blot #ink #into

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#comes #give #give me #good #i

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#blot #bombs #civilization #few #few people