
Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.
– Jane Smiley
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- The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. – Anthony Jay
- as if all the years haven’t dulled that moment. She’s staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son. – Cath Crowley
- The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else. – David Guterson
- All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful. – Carl Sagan
- People will often give you a detailed tour of the underside of the bus that they will throw you under later. – Steffan Piper
- We can no longer create the feeling of an era…of time being particular to one spot in time. – Douglas Coupland
- Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. – Jane Smiley
- My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will. – Jane Smiley
- Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced. – Jane Smiley
- The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. – Jane Smiley
- In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley
- Evil people must spread their evil everywhere. – Jane Smiley
- This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight. – Jane Smiley
- Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don’t know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges. – Jane Smiley
- Are you planning to get married?’ She finally asked. ‘Like to someone in particular?’ He shrugged. ‘Aren’t most marriages to someone in particular? – Cassandra Gannon
- We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking. – Ai Weiwei
- I Don’t Suffer From A Complex But The Complex Suffers From Me. – Amit Abraham
- Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. – Archimedes
- As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you’d think I’d grow accustomed to the gloom. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections. – Mary Baker Eddy
- Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections. – Mary Baker Eddy
- The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave. – Tavis Smiley
- Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. – Smiley Blanton
- A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. – Smiley Blanton
- People are here on Earth to improve their own energy. It is not the Earth’s energy and the Earth’s force that need to be improved. – Anni Sennov
- Earth does not need you, you need the earth. To save yourself, save the earth. – Vinita Kinra
- Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else. – JD Jordan
- I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane’s. – Jane Austen
- Since I had a soft spot for zombies and my curiosity was killing me, I opted for plan Z. – Darynda Jones
- Life is made of peaks & troughs. If you don’t like going up and down then you must live your life standing in one spot. – Alex Zar
- He found my g-spot,alright, he found it, then made it sing Zippity-Doo-Dah. – Oleander Plume
- I’d say I never considered myself a great architect. I’m more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares. – Maria Semple
- Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top. – Cyc Jouzy
- People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot. – Bryant McGill
- A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot. – Craig Johnson
- You can’t ever really have enough worth that when you’re gone, the spot you left won’t close over. – Laura Florand
- Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone. – Sanjida Kay
- Even a deep chick like me needed to have a shallow spot somewhere inside. – Ash Krafton
- I’ve learned to be comforted in the dark spot of my mind. – Lisa M Cronkhite
- I’d put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead? – Chris Kyle
