Spells Quotes - Page 13

• Xylophone is spelled with an X. That's wrong. It should be a Z up front. Next time you spell xylophone, use a Z. If someone says, "That's wrong!", you say, "No, it ain't." If you think that's wrong, then you need to have your head Z-rayed.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.

  Misha Collins

  Names, Ideas, People

  "I am Misha Collins, a Futuristic Version of AMA!". www.reddit.com. July 14, 2014.

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• I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.

  Stephen King

  Couple, Reading, School

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.

  Lorrie Moore

  Stories, Use, Narrative

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself "no no, it's gonna be fine. There's gonna be more songs, it's all good.

  Dan Mangan

  Song, Dry, Sometimes

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• They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.

  Gabriel Ba

  Names, People, Calling

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Leadership, Christian, Over You

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• There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

  Henry Miller

  Powerful, Ideas, Vision

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

  Mickey Spillane

  Beer, Hammers, Cognac

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• Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’.

  Thomas Henderson

  Cat, Nfl Players, Nfl Football

  Thomas Henderson (1988). “Out of Control”, Pocket

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• We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if Thou were dead. Let us more and more come to know Thee as a living Lord who hath promised to them that believe: "Because I live, ye shall live also." Help us to remember that we are praying to the Conqueror of Death, that we may no longer be afraid nor dismayed by the world's problems and threats, since Thou hast overcome the world. In Thy strong name, we ask for Thy living presence and Thy victorious power. Amen.

  Peter Marshall

  Life, Strong, Believe

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• You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'

  John Mayer

  Vegetarian, Developers

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• My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• The very fact that faith looks to a power beyond itself means that it is continually subject to loss of control. So if you're looking to get control of all your problems, forget Christianity. If you're looking for success, happiness, or freedom from pain, forget Christ. The way of Christ is the cross, and the cross spells weakness, poverty, failure, death.

  Mike Mason

  Faith, Religious, Pain

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• The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sex, Heart, Pride

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• Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Work, Loss

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• To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.

  Daniel Quinn

  Buddhism, Islam, Different

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• My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Inspiration, Home, Men

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• I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Children, Husband, Home

  "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.

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• One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

  Steve Goodier

  Real, Life Changing, Differences

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• I think all great comedies - or at least the comedies I like - it has some of the funniest moments, but it never breaks the spell for the audience. It never pushes the audience away by spoofing itself too much or undermining the characters or making them cardboard or flimsy. Everybody is really trying to do what their characters believe in - and so nobody breaks the spell of the world, even though in other ways it's a comedy and very funny.

  James Franco

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Lying, Kids, Hard Work

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• If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

  Richard Simmons

  Song, Ifs, I Can

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

  Assata Shakur

  Two, People, Contradiction

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