Spells Quotes - Page 12

• Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

  James Bryant Conant

  Tyrants, Political, Magic

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• I break an emcee off proper
  Yo don't check me,
  Ask your Moms and Pops,
  Yo they respect me,
  But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin'
  You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"

  KRS-One

  Mom, Hip Hop, Emcee

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• If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Pregnancy, Fighting, Men

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• In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Ifs

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• When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.

  Tom Waits

  Rain, Dresses, Hats

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• The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Race, Self

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Lying, Exercise

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• You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Way, Never Trust

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• There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Work, Reality

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• When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

  Matt Czuchry

  Names, Three, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, "Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!" And I said, "It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell 'chai-ay-oh.'" Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.

  Teri Garr

  Italian, Laughing, Guy

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Aaron Rodgers is going to spell ‘relax’ with R-U-N…You’re going to see a lot of Eddie Lacy.

  Bill Cowher

  Relax, Aaron Rodgers

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Airports, Two

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I refuse to burn my energy adding extra magic and sparkle to other people’s lives to get them to love me. I’m busy casting spells for myself.

  Laurie Penny

  Growing Up, Hero, Men

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• I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.  How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.  How you can fall in love with the light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Falling In Love, Home, Light

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• Making a movie is casting a spell.

  Kenneth Anger

  Casting

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• I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Air, Long

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• On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.

  Joan Rivers

  White, Laughing, Diets

  "Can we talk?" by Linda Koehler, www.tnonline.com. September 13, 2014.

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• What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Believe, Successful

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

  William Cowper

  Book, Talismans

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.297

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• This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell.

  Michael Chekhov

  Real, Sacrifice, Artist

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• Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, World, Able

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1998). “The Communist Manifesto and Its Relevance for Today”, p.50, Resistance Books

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• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

  Andrew Sarris

  Achievement, Firsts, Artistic

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• The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Moving, Learning

  A radio speech broadcast from London to America on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of the University of Rochester, June 16, 1941.

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