Spells Quotes - Page 20

• All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

  John Keats

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.91, Harvard University Press

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• Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

  Paul McCartney

  Dream, Home, Sadness

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• What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

  Joyce Cary

  Powerful, Imagination, Actors

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

  Marie de France

  Names, Letters, Firsts

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

  Charles Olson

  Men, America, Space

  1947 Call Me Ishmael, section1.

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• When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.

  Mark Batterson

  Add, Spirit, Boring

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• I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

  Ronnie Dunn

  Legacy, Know How, Knows

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• To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.

  Umberto Eco

  Atheist, Believe, Book

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

  Kathi Appelt

  Rocks, Paper, Intensity

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• I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Taken, Study, Found

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• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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• I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Dancing, Way

  Song: Mr. Tambourine Man, 1965

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• As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

  Don McLean

  Art, Angel, Media

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• Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

  Jane Campion

  Reading, Eight, Years

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• The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Punctuation Marks, Confusing

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney (Foreword, p. 13), 2003.

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• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hands, Endurance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.152

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• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Team, Decision, Different

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• The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

  John Lennon

  Ideas, Looks, Beats

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• Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Giving Up, Dark, Doubt

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”

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• A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Sight, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.102, Modern Library

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• When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

  Aeschylus

  Men, Blood, Black

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

  Dean Koontz

  Powerful, Powder, Fascinated

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.58, Penguin

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• County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

  Bill Watterson

  Library, Needs, Definitions

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