Spotlight Quotes

“You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist.”
― Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

“Many people are trying hard to be invincible, and most of the time they fail invisible, while few find their spotlight. But the remarkable person is one, who can be both invincible and invisible at the same time.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“She was born to be in the spotlight—rave reviews and curtain calls and cast parties, and men of all ages throwing themselves off bridges for her.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Step out today not seeking to be in the spotlight but seeking for a spot to light - be a blessing to someone”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be like the sun; it does not look for the spotlight; the limelight travels with it wherever it goes.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The reason why you doubt yourself so much is that you have never seen yourself in action.
You have never seen yourself breaking limits.
You have never seen yourself standing in the spotlight and getting cheered by the audience.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When in darkness, you lose your own shadow too”
― Zain Baloch

“I’ve seen too much of what the spotlight can do to a person to ever crave it for myself.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Spotlight

“It is those who avoid the spotlight that tend to be doing the greatest things because their hearts are set on avoiding the lesser things.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He tells Alex about growing up...How he realized by the time he was four that every person in the country knew his name, and how he told his mother he didn't know if he wanted them to”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Be forever young in the flesh, it makes the mind flash light low, until the spotlight follows your shadow.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Spotlights appeared by the dozen, like the bullets of heaven’s gun, and anyone caught running through one of them didn't run for long.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“The snake is the anchor in hiding and he’s in the left corner. For some reason, he’s got the fake anchor out there taking the heat while he sits there taking it all in. Maybe he doesn’t like the spotlight. Maybe there is some strategic advantage to the room not knowing he’s the man, but he is. Fortunately for everyone, the snake move only works a few times within a company before word gets out who the real anchor is.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“Character is when alone and nobody is watching while behavior is when one is in the stage spotlight.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The Germans did not like to use the searchlights, especially on nights when there were British bombing raids on nearby installations. Even the most uneducated German soldier could guess that from the air the sight of probing searchlights would make the camp appear to be an ammunition dump or a manufacturing plant, and some hard-pressed Lancaster pilot, having fought off frightening raids by Luftwaffe night fighters, might make an error and drop his stick of bombs right on top of them.

So the searchlight use was erratic, which only made them more terrifying to anyone who wanted to maneuver from one hut to another at night. It was difficult to time their sweeps because they were so haphazard.”
― John Katzenbach, Hart's War

“I never said I didn’t like dancing,” he says, arching an eyebrow. “Yes, you did!” He shakes his head, the smallest of smiles lifting one corner of his mouth. “I said I came here to play hockey, not dance. And I told you I don’t like the spotlight. I never said I don’t like dancing.” I think back to our conversations, realizing he’s right. “Well, you certainly gave me the impression you don’t like dancing.” “It just takes the right partner.” (Page 177, Just Don't Fall)”
― Emma St Clair

“Under the spotlight, of the streetlights
That wait for me to shine
Over the moonlight, it feels so right
I'm poetry in motion
It's part of my devotion
I play with all emotion
Under the spotlight, of the streetlights”
― Marie Helen Abramyan

“The spotlight of galactic history was a dangerous place.”
― Bert-Oliver Boehmer, Galacticide

“This is Vegas, Coral. Which means bigger, bolder, and brighter than anything you've done thus far. It could catapult you into the spotlight.”
― E.F. Dodd