Blot Quotes
Quotes on marks, memory, and what we wish away
These quotes use "blot" both literally and as metaphor, from an inkblot compared to abstract art to the historical stain of slavery one speaker urges we finally wipe away, if we're Able to answer hard questions honestly.
I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out.
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
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Nothing is worse than washing a head of lettuce or greens, then trying to blot the water with paper towels. A salad spinner lets you rinse, then spin all the water off completely. Plus, it's fun to use.
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it...
Able Quotes
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.
'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.
American Quotes
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American...
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
Animal Quotes
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does "blot" mean across these different quotes?
Is there a quote referencing a serious historical wrong?
Is there an artistic use of "blot" in this set?
Does any quote touch on body image or representation?
Is there a lighter, more everyday use of "blot"?
Another quote reflects on how certain bodies are treated as a "blot on the landscape" in visual culture, a pointed observation that's been part of the American conversation on culture and image for years.
