Spells Quotes - Page 28

• I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

  Loretta Young

  School, Disability, Reason

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• My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.

  Liv Tyler

  Diaries, Disaster, Sentences

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• Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

  Rumi

  Trying, Sorcery, Earth

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• We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

  John Eldredge

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.260, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

  John Lubbock

  Song, Spring, Flower

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• None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

  Donald Evans

  Loyalty, Wine, Heaven

  Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”

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• . . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

  Andrew Lang

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

  Max Irons

  Eight, Names, Iron

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Years, Swings

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.

  Alexander Eliot

  Angel, Heart, Moon

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• Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Dull, Way

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• If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

  Glenn Beck

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Long

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• Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Powerful, Ascent, Noise

  Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr

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• The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Brain

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.110, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Fiction, Wondrous

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.451

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• I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.

  James Fallows

  Sarcastic, Needs, Faces

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• Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Health, Addiction, Progress

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.219, Health Research Books

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• What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

  Robert Musil

  Use, World, Want

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• I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Wonder, Wells

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• The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Sleep, Light, Illumination

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• How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Believe, Heart

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 31, 2013

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• That girl can barely spell her name.

  Tupac Shakur

  Friendship, Girl, Names

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• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  Adam Gopnik

  Autumn, Light, Games

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

  Len Goodman

  I Can

  "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

  Tony Gilroy

  Emotion, Break, Sentimentality

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