Spells Quotes - Page 19

• Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

  Robin Sloan

  Warrior, Guy, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.

  Robert Greene

  People, Broken, Moments

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.14, Profile Books

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.

  Dawna Markova

  Education, School, Swimming

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.

  Paul W. K. Rothemund

  Technology, Dna, Self

  5 Copy quote

• Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

  S. D Gordon

  Easter, Rare Beauty, Chocolate Eggs

  71 Copy quote

• Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states.

  Lorrie Moore

  Sex, Believe, Psychosis

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.166, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

  Josh McDowell

  Love, Giving, Development

  11 Copy quote

• That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Flirting, House

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

  Ginni Rometty

  Dust, Data, Thought Provoking

  30 Copy quote

• I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last book, I have a chance to do what I want to do - specifically, something set in New Orleans.

  Robert Asprin

  Book, New Orleans, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

  Libba Bray

  Travel, Forever, Mind

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

  Richard Eberhart

  Heart, Feelings, Way

  "Poet Richard Eberhart Dies at Age 101". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 12, 2005.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Names, White

  9 Copy quote

• My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

  William Carlos Williams

  Suicidal, Blue, Joy

  "The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams" by William Carlos Williams, W. W. Norton & Co., 1951.

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

  Dan Quayle

  Mistake, Men, Should Have

  5 Copy quote

• It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Assessment, Intellectual, Intelligence

  9 Copy quote

• Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  God, Religion, Groups

  7 Copy quote

• It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Believe, Home, Names

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Song, Religious, Heart

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.349, Oxford University Press on Demand

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Work, Reality

  5 Copy quote

• Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

  21 Copy quote

• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Recap: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

  Rick Perry

  Groups, Facts, Scientist

  "Is Rick Perry a 21st-century Galileo?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Philosophical, Wish, Maps

  7 Copy quote

• I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

  Barbra Streisand

  Names, Care, I Don't Care

  "Broadway:The Girl". Time Magazine, content.time.com. April 10, 1964.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source