Spells Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

  Alice Walker

  Reading, Writing, Generations

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.20, New Press, The

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• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Men, Church On Sunday

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

  Beverly Cleary

  Librarian, Should, Know How

  Beverly Cleary (2001). “Ramona's world”

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• I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Thinking, President, Hiv

  "Liz’s Aids Odyssey". Interview With Nancy Collins, www.vanityfair.com. November 1992.

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• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Remember

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• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  Patrick Swayze

  Artist, Past, Remember

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Real, Enthusiasm For Life

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• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  John Adams

  Eye, Simple, Imagination

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.79, UPNE

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• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

  James Allen

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thee

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• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Broken, Magic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Matter, Sin, Stills

  Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

  Charles Dickens

  Judging, Fancy, Taste

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 34

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• When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

  Feist

  Mean, Self, Casting

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• The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

  James Fenton

  Mom, Mother, Humorous

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• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

  Diane Ackerman

  Distance, Balance, Human Nature

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• The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Community, President

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Names, Two

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• Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Baby, Thinking

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• The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Magic, Mind, Tunes

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• People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

  Linda Blair

  Dog, Religious, Animal

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, People, Democracy

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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• One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

  Bill Nye

  Hearing, Drawbacks

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• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Stuff, Idiot

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

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