#spot

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#few people #people #spotlight #themselves #truly

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#characters #get #outside #somewhere #spotlight

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#back #comes #facing #i #singing

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. ↗

— Steven Wright

#dog #gone #i #now #poured

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#been #being #completely #everyone #happy

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#collins #great #had #i #phil

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#despotism #fetters #freedom #our #possessions

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. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#bad #bad taste #buildings #color #community