Spells Quotes - Page 13

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

Dan Quayle

Mistake, Men, Should Have

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My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

William Carlos Williams

Suicidal, Blue, Joy

"The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams" by William Carlos Williams, W. W. Norton & Co., 1951.

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There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

Mike Tyson

Hate, Names, White

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Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

Richard Eberhart

Heart, Feelings, Way

"Poet Richard Eberhart Dies at Age 101". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 12, 2005.

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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

Libba Bray

Travel, Forever, Mind

Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last book, I have a chance to do what I want to do - specifically, something set in New Orleans.

Robert Asprin

Book, New Orleans, Years

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Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

Ginni Rometty

Dust, Data, Thought Provoking

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That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

Benjamin Disraeli

Country, Flirting, House

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Josh McDowell

Love, Giving, Development

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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states.

Lorrie Moore

Sex, Believe, Psychosis

Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.166, Faber & Faber

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Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

S. D Gordon

Easter, Rare Beauty, Chocolate Eggs

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There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.

Paul W. K. Rothemund

Technology, Dna, Self

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From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.

Dawna Markova

Education, School, Swimming

Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

Cynthia Lewis

Assessment, Intellectual, Intelligence

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Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

Robert Todd Carroll

God, Religion, Groups

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We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

Price Pritchett

Life, Pain, Struggle

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Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.

Henry Alonso Myers

Friendship, Loneliness, Mean

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Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:
R: Ravishing, I: Impress,
C: Courageous or Careless,
K: for the Kangols which I've got,
That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

Slick Rick

Rap, Names, Hip Hop

Song: Mona Lisa, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm here for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.

Diana Wynne Jones

Heart, Thinking, Soul

Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

James Mattis

Sleep, Night, Enemy

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Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Inspiration, Thinking

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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

Stanley Kubrick

Philosophical, Wish, Maps

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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

Hilary Mantel

Real, Believe, Writing

"‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Recap: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2012.

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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

Bernard Cornwell

Love Is, Men, Thinking

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Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

Rick Perry

Groups, Facts, Scientist

"Is Rick Perry a 21st-century Galileo?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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