Spells Quotes - Page 17

• If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Real, Serious, Disability

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• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  Gary Gygax

  Real, Fire, Dragons

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• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  Ferdinand Mount

  America, People, Lasts

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• Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

  O. Henry

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

  Lian Hearn

  Prayer, Life Is, Fragile

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

  Mike Mason

  Doctors, Drug, Coercion

  Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah

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• If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

  John Wooden

  Hard Work, Cutting, Fundamentals

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• The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Doctors, Medicine, Promise

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Heart, League

  "'If I Fell in a Barrel of Boobs, I'd Come Out Sucking My Thumb!' - the Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.standard.co.uk. May 24, 2010.

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• All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Moon, Practice

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• The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

  Louis Zamperini

  New York, Race, Names

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• I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Character, Men, People

  "Dan Whitney, a.k.a. Larry The Cable Guy". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.

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• We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze, to glance as we cross a bridge, all of us are drawn to rivers, all of us happily submit to their spell. We need their familiar mystery. We need their fluent lives interflowing with our own.

  John Daniel

  Bridges, Rivers, Water

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.108, Counterpoint

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• Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Light, Gypsy, Mystery

  Song: Luna's Gone, Album: Between Here and Gone, 2004

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• I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

  Jeff Gannon

  Real, Talking, Names

  "Transcript of CNN Interview with the Reporter Formerly Known as Gannon", www.editorandpublisher.com. February 19, 2005.

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• PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Reading, Character

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• There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, Fall, Twilight

  "The Philosophy of Ingersoll: To Plow is to Pray, to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfils".

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• You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.

  Harbhajan Singh

  One Day, Different, Roles

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• I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Riddle, Pun

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• The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

  Calvin Trillin

  Baseball, Stars, Ambition

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• Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Blood, Sweat

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• I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Swear

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• The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sex, Heart, Pride

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• Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Work, Loss

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