Spells Quotes - Page 7

• I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Character, Men, People

  "Dan Whitney, a.k.a. Larry The Cable Guy". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.

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• We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze, to glance as we cross a bridge, all of us are drawn to rivers, all of us happily submit to their spell. We need their familiar mystery. We need their fluent lives interflowing with our own.

  John Daniel

  Bridges, Rivers, Water

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.108, Counterpoint

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• Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Light, Gypsy, Mystery

  Song: Luna's Gone, Album: Between Here and Gone, 2004

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• I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

  Jeff Gannon

  Real, Talking, Names

  "Transcript of CNN Interview with the Reporter Formerly Known as Gannon", www.editorandpublisher.com. February 19, 2005.

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• PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Reading, Character

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• There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, Fall, Twilight

  "The Philosophy of Ingersoll: To Plow is to Pray, to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfils".

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• Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Ideas, Interesting, Momentum

  "The Constant Art of Being a Writer" by N. M. Kelby, (p. 102), 2009.

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• Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Enchantment, Artist

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.51, Random House

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• Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.133, Vintage

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• Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Doctors, Medicine, Promise

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

  John Wooden

  Hard Work, Cutting, Fundamentals

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• I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Lady Macbeth, Sometimes

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.247, Penguin

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• In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Block, Thinking, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

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• The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together these actions spell out the increasing marginalization of the terrorists, as they have fewer and fewer places to run and hide.

  John Cornyn

  Running, Rights, Government

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• I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

  Marie de France

  Names, Letters, Firsts

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Real, Serious, Disability

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• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  Gary Gygax

  Real, Fire, Dragons

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• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  Ferdinand Mount

  America, People, Lasts

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• Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

  O. Henry

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

  Lian Hearn

  Prayer, Life Is, Fragile

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

  Mike Mason

  Doctors, Drug, Coercion

  Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah

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• Acceptance spells death to a writer.

  Arundhati Roy

  Acceptance

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