Spelling Quotes - Page 6

• The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

  Jean Houston

  Dog, Children, Men

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• Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known.

  Peter Johnston

  Children, Expectations, Important

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• A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Years, Awful

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3507, GENERAL PRESS

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• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Philosophy, Two

  "Eddie Izzard: Live at the Ambassadors". Comedy, 1993.

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• In California, 50 women protested the impending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president.

  Jay Leno

  War, Lying, Ideas

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• Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

  Frank Smith

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Frank Smith (2007). “Reading: FAQ”

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• Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

  Mark Twain

  Chastity

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.18, Penguin

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• We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"

  John Lennox

  God, Intelligent, Names

  John C. Lennox (2011). “God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?”, p.74, Lion Books

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• As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Eye, Thinking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or Dark Horse or BOOM! editor who's assigning work, then if you did your job properly to begin with, then the people you've hired can be trusted to do what they do without excessive meddling. The ideal situation you're shooting for as an editor is to groom a collaborative creative team to the point where their work sails effortlessly through production and the most you have to do is fix the spelling and the commas.

  Mark Waid

  Horse, Jobs, Team

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

  Ashley Scott

  Numbers, Mixing, Addresses

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• Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

  Alyssa Milano

  Men, Careers, Pulse

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• Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Doors, Sky

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1963). “Angles and Britons”, Cardiff, University of Wales Press

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• Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

  Linda Evans

  Gone, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I know, that I know, that I know, we are about to see the greatest manifestations of God's presence ever! A prophetess named Ruth Heflin sent me a word recently and told me to get ready, to see, physical manifestations of Christ on the platforms in our crusades, that people will have visions of the Lord in the meetings. Those things have happened in the past, I know. In a Thialagua (spelling?) meeting one time in Africa, the Lord appeared to a - to the whole crowd! It is about to begin happening, I know it too! Expect it, to happen also, in your own home!

  Benny Hinn

  Home, Past, People

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• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Reform

  "Year in Review". Rolling Stone, December 15, 1988.

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• As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Two, Letters, Six

  "The Author", Summer 1944.

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• In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Eye, Reality, Space

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.80, Macmillan

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• The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

  Aleister Crowley

  Order, Adopted, Counterfeit

  Aleister Crowley “Mysticism & Magick”, Lulu.com

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• I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

  Adam Sandler

  Dad, Thinking, Skateboarding

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• In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Hate, Comedy, Insult

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

  Adam Langer

  What Matters, Stories, Overrated

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media

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• We must pay close attention to the signals our body sends - the aches and pains, digestions and indigestions, increased energies and exhaustions. Our body sends us signals about the correct 'spelling' of our lives. These sensations are the sum of complex inner computations that we must learn to interpret.

  Susan Collins

  Pain, Body, Pay

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

  Joe Manganiello

  Drama, School, Names

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