Spoil Quotations

I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

Nobody is satisfied here because we didn't get the job done this season. But we have to look at this as an opportunity to spoil it for the Redskins and to go out with a bang.

Obviously we played our worst game at the absolute worst time, but we were hoping one game wasn't going to spoil all the wonderful things this team had done all year long. We all know there's going to be teams left out and there are going to be discussions. That's part of the selection process and sports.

Now we just need to carry it back to the road starting tonight in Boston and do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

If we can't go, we'll make sure we spoil it for somebody else. Tonight it was Brevard. If it was Palm Beach, we would have done the same thing.

If we're hoping to spoil their season ... , ... well, we're just trying to win.

May we never let the things we cant have, or dont have, or shouldnt have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. Richard L. Evans

He knows that his Freedom Party has emerged from chronic opposition to become a party which shares in government. He will do anything not to spoil this historic chance.

I can't imagine Bush would want to spoil things in the economy by picking someone that is not competent,

Hussein was more awkward than I thought. Once I put him down in the fifth round he was still strong. He was just trying to spoil and hold, but big respect to him -- he takes a good punch.

I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of the kind of stuff you look for.

Lincoln City is going to be a key community for us. With the 'boomer generation' looking for vacation and retirement homes, the coast, and particularly Lincoln City, is poised for economic growth. The trick for all of us who live here will be to manage that growth so that we don't spoil the unique elements of coastal living that are important to all of us.

Opening Day is a fun day. The last thing you want to do is spoil it with a loss. You want to cap it with a win and send everybody home happy. But it doesn't change the fact that we have a good team and we're going to have a great season.

I think it's funny. You have one fan yelling and you have all the other fans telling him to shut up. I think it was just one, so one didn't spoil the whole bunch.

You can definitely use that as motivation, but the most important thing is not to spoil their season, but to end the season on a high note and have it carry over into the off-season.

We played the worst game at the absolute worst time, but we were hoping one game wasn't going to spoil all the wonderful things we did all year long. I'm pleased the committee, in my mind, did the right thing.

We didn't want to spoil a party, we just wanted to win a game.

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

...don't spoil my learning process!

When, full of warm and eager love, I clasp you in my fond embrace, You gently push me back and say, "Take care, my dear, you'll spoil my lace.

When, full of warm and eager love,I clasp you in my fond embrace,You gently push me back and say,"Take care, my dear, you'll spoil my lace.

We beat ourselves up and down -- on offense, defense and special teams. We didn't spoil their streak, but we can get another shot at them. They can be beat. This team isn't too much for us. Can we beat them? Hell, yeah.

We don't need to spoil what we have with a bunch of oil rigs.

We've been doing a few dates as an acoustic duo. The music that we've been working on is a big departure for both of us. The audience for Train will be very surprised at the direction of these songs, and it's really a very different sound from what I do in Luce. I don't want to spoil the surprise, so I'll just say that conceptually we took some real chances with both the arrangements and the lyrics.

We need to do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

We've tried to spoil our users a bit too.

What holds South Sydney back can be attributed to lack of funding, but it also is possibly attributed to too many cooks spoil the broth.

CUF has reason to believe the governments of Zanzibar and Tanzania are planning to rig or to spoil the election in Zanzibar using the security forces.

Don't swallow any of that. It'll spoil the taste of the bourbon.

Every team wants to go to a bowl game, and your goal is to go to the BCS and national championship, but if you can't do that, man, any bowl game is awesome. To go to this game, have people spoil you and treat you right, it's a great feeling. It's the icing on the cake.

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.

Things are definitely lined up. Things are lined up in our favor. But all it takes is only 40 minutes in one night to spoil it. It can all go bad quick. We have to come out and do the things we can do.

And why spoil the beauty of the backcountry when you haven't fully explored alternatives.

You hate to have a rough stretch late in the season but that is part of developing a program. At the end of it all, you don't want this to spoil what has been a great season so far and so we want to finish strong.

We've put the word out for a lot of our friends in Hawaii, but we're not going to spoil the surprise,

To spoil a child with positive interactions and time (with parents) - I don't think you can overdo that.

We had a great season. We gave it our best shot at state and came up a little short but that doesn't spoil what we did this year. Bishop Gorman was a tremendous team. That game doesn't change the fact that we had a great year.

We didn't hit the ball well tonight not as well as we've been hitting it. They hit the ball. They hit a lot better than they did the last time. They came in well-prepared. I feel like they were coming in here to try to spoil our tournament for us. They did a good job.

Of course we do not want to spoil the fun of the visitors by making them queue for a long time, or they may not be used to queuing for so long. That's why we are discussing with Disney to see if we could have flexible arrangements, like during certain days, when the number of people entering the park reaches a certain figure, they should not let the park become too crowded.

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

People spoil their children all the time. Nobody writes newspaper articles about it.

They were crazy about it. It's like we were soccer stars in Italy. They would ask for autographs, and we'd go into a restaurant and they would spoil us, try to give us wine. So the spirit here is alive and kicking.

I'm not too worried, but I want to be sure. I don't want to go on and (possibly) spoil my season.

If you only have one or two producers on a film, you're statistically likely to have a stinker. That's the opposite of the idea that too many cooks spoil the brew.

This is clearly a non-threatening report for investors and policy makers alike. Labor market conditions appear to be tepid enough to justify less rather than more Fed rate hikes while wage pressures did not spoil the party.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

I just hope it is going to be as good a game as all the others and the rain doesn't spoil it.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say ""give them up,"" for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

It's definitely a long shot. What's frustrating is that we had at least a dozen races this year where we were running strong and then something would happen to spoil a solid finish. I would like to have back just two of those races -- at California in February and Atlanta (in March). Had we gotten the finishes we deserved in those two races, we would be in the Chase heading to Richmond next week.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back on 23 years. So I'm not going to let 48 hours spoil my fun.

The idea is to time an attack press conference to spoil another press conference.

I spoil a lot of people with my play,

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

It's kind of like a family reunion you want to go to. Money would just change spoil it.

It's all about balance. We're not trying to spoil anyone's fun. It's great to see kids playing outside - we just want them to do it safely.

That's special the way that team beat us and broke our record at home. So it was good to come in here and spoil their Senior Night.

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.

It's against the rule of Islam, against the rule of religion, against the rule of any humanitarian attitude to spoil the festive day for the Iraqis in such a bloody action. This will make the situation worse. I call on the American people to urge their government to find a civilized attitude. I don't think this fits with the reputation that the Americans have.

They're going to spoil me if they keep on running out there like that.

combined to spoil what could have been a very good quarter.

Come on, a bit of egg isn't gonna spoil a rock show for someone standing at the back of a 46,000 strong crowd. Everyone got a show they'll remember for the rest of their lives. If I was at that show I'd want to keep the ticket stub because it'll go down in history.

I considered myself one of the boys. My brothers didn't spoil me at all, not at all. I was very tomboyish. It wasn't as if I was like a princess or anything like that.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

I like girls, but I prefer having a girlfriend. I like having someone I can spoil.

I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

economy spoils pleasure

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Rich with the spoils of time.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

No praying, it spoils business.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind. Bad Commentators spoil the best of books, So God sends meat (they say) the devil Cooks.