Famous quotes containing the words main, event and/or spot:
“I think the main thing, don’t you, is to keep the show on the road.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
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