Spells Quotes - Page 29

• If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Years, Complaining, Matter

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.315, Princeton University Press

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• X-Pac, I feel terrible that you have to come out here and defend the integrity of a woman who has absolutely none. I mean as far as Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley is concerned the word honor means jump on her and stay on her. Well, let's spell that word H-O-N-O-R. I guess Stephanie is half of that. After all she is a filthy, dirty, disgusting, brutal, skanky, bottom feeding trash bog H-O. And no amount of defending will ever, EVER change that!

  Chris Jericho

  Integrity, Dirty, Mean

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• I'll write you a check. I'll write you a check. How do you spell Sheamus?

  Santino Marella

  Writing, Wwe, Checks

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• Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.

  Mark Steyn

  Fundraising, People, Fake

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• Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Moving, Atoms

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Memories, Imagination, Desire

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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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• There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

  Michael Gambon

  Real, Nice, Magic

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

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• Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

  Kathy Griffin

  Best Effort, House, Magic

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• Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Thinking, Two, People

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• I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

  Jessye Norman

  Affliction, Particular, I Can

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• Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

  Martin O'Malley

  Class, America, Ships

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• Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Book, Thinking, Wings

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• Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

  Benjamin Walker

  Actors, Dry, Going To Work

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• How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fishes, Ought

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