His name was Shadow, short for ShadowThat Comes in Sight, an old Indian name, Apache or Cheyenne. I very much approved of this.You don't want dogs called Spot or Pooch.You don't want dogs called Nigel or Keith. The names of dogs should salute the mystical drama of the animal life. Shadowöthat's a good name.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  Money.

Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

-Archimedes
Traditionally attributed to Archimedes; a variation can be found in Plutarch Marcellus,14.

   Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flockof sheep that are evenshorn, whichcameup from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Thy two breasts are liketwo young roesthat aretwins, which feed among the lilies.Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and tothehill of frankincense.Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 4:1^7.

Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatic Lyrics,'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'.

'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels By blood or ink; 'tis sweet to put an end To strife; 'tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Particularly with a tiresome friend; Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels; Dear is the helpless creature we defend Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza126.

Mrs. Stowe did not hit the sorest spot. She makes Legree a bachelor.

-Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller
Diary entry, 26  Aug, recording the conversation of a group of southern white womenon the subject of men and slavery. The reference is to the principal slaveholder in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

   The naturalist in England, in his walks, enjoys a great advantage over others in frequently meeting with something worthy of attention; here he suffers a pleasant nuisance in not being able to walk a hundred yards without being fairly tied to the spot by some new and wondrous creature.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
  In Brazil.  Journey of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited duringthe Voyage of HMS 'Beagle' Round the World (published1839).

Money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

-Gay,John
  The Beggar's Opera, act1, sc.9.

Close by the Hudson, inThe iron palaces of Art glare down On such as, wandering in the streets below, Perambulate in glamorous SoHo, A spot acclaimed by savant and by bard As forcing chamber of the Avant-Garde.

-Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
MANHATTAN'S TOWN, 1984  'The SoHoiad', in the NewYork Review of Books.

We have†come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.

-King, Martin LutherJr
  Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.

Quand une femme frappe dans le coeur d'une autre, elle manque rarement de trouver l'endroit sensible, et la blessure est incurable. When one woman touches another's heart, she rarely has trouble finding the sensitive spot and the wound is incurable.

-Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de
  Les Liaisons dangereuses, letter145.

Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, opening lines.

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, it may remain a habit! But it won't do any good, if it is not universal.

-Tolkien,J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel)
  Letter to ChristopherTolkien, 29 Apr.

For there is a spot the size of a shilling at the back of the head which one cannever see foroneself.It is one of the good offices that sex can discharge for sexöto describe that spot.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
  A Room of One's Own, ch.5.

Surprised by joyöimpatient as the wind I turned to share the transportöOh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? 928

-Wordsworth,William
c.1812  'Surprised by joyöimpatient as the wind', l.1^4 (published1815).The poet's second daughter, Catherine, who died inJune1812, is the'thee'referred to in the poem.