Spells Quotes - Page 4

• '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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• 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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• 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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• When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

  Paula Poundstone

  School, Voice, Giving

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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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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• Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, People

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• I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  FaceBook post by Richard Simmons from Dec 13, 2014

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand

  Beauty, Eye, Soul

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.30

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• It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Play, Band

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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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• Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Broken, Passionate

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

  Winona Ryder

  World, Sensitive, Feels

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• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285, 1979.

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• If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

  Dan Quayle

  Internet Users, Als, Checks

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• Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

  Julia Roberts

  Feelings, Magic, Parks

  "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner and Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April, 2012.

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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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• 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 word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

  Steven Pinker

  Prayer, Believe, Thinking

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• Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Power, Humanity, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mean, Doors, Delay

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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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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• Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation.

  Harold B. Lee

  Mean, Exaltation, Priesthood

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