Spells Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Real, Wish, Usual

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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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• I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

  James Ellroy

  Dream, Men, Careers

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• Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Believe, Home, Names

  Quoted in N.Y. Tribune, 12 Apr. 1922

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• With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Mind Blowing, Eras

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2011

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• The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Doe, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.67, 谷月社

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• 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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• CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Writing, Target

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, Play, Wheelchairs

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• It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

  Graham Norton

  Sound, Shallow, Members

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• I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Boys

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• Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uncles, Dad, Fear

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• If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Eye, Waiting

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.314, Faber & Faber

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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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• Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

  Jane Birkin

  Mother, Mean, Two

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

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• And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Real, War

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• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  Barry Hannah

  Voice, Littles, Away From You

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fishes, Ought

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• Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

  Joseph Sobran

  Goal, Wish, Principles

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