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

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• No creo que el presidente Bush esté haciendo nada en absoluto contra el sida. De hecho, ni siquiera estoy seguro de que sepa deletrear "sida".

  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

  Recuerde

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• Si sobrevives a la etapa inicial de la fama y la superas, y recuerdas que eso no es lo que eres. Si lo superas, entonces tienes la esperanza de aprender a deletrear la palabra artista.

  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

  Arte, Escritura, Personas

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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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• La belleza que se dirige a los ojos es sólo el hechizo del momento; el ojo del cuerpo no es siempre el del alma.

  George Sand

  Belleza, Ojo, Alma

  George Sand (1871). "El apuesto 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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• Un avivamiento hace dos cosas. En primer lugar, saca a la Iglesia de su reincidencia y, en segundo lugar, provoca la conversión de hombres y mujeres; y siempre incluye la convicción de pecado por parte de la Iglesia. ¡Qué hechizo parece lanzar el diablo sobre la Iglesia de hoy!

  Billy Domingo

  Sports, Men, Church On Sunday

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). "Billy Sunday, el hombre y su mensaje: Con sus propias palabras que han ganado a miles para Cristo"

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• Ponte cualquier cosa cuando veas un lienzo en blanco mirándote a la cara como un imbécil. No sabes lo paralizante que es esa mirada fija de un lienzo en blanco, que le dice al pintor: 'No puedes hacer nada'. El lienzo tiene una mirada idiota e hipnotiza tanto a algunos pintores que ellos mismos se convierten en idiotas. Muchos pintores tienen miedo ante el lienzo en blanco, pero el lienzo en blanco tiene miedo del pintor real y apasionado que se atreve y que ha roto el hechizo del "no puedes" de una vez por todas.

  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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• Todos estamos aquí por una temporada, ríete todo lo que puedas.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiración, Felicidad, Risa

  "Citas de Peter: Ideas para nuestro tiempo". Libro de 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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• El entusiasmo es mágico. Marca la diferencia entre la mediocridad y el éxito.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Actitud, Real, Entusiasmo Por La Vida

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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: Lecciones del líder más valiente del siglo XX", 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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• Si escribes literatura para chicas, si eres neoyorquina y si tu libro se convierte en el tema de fascinación de la cultura pop, el periódico puede hacer una mención desdeñosa e ignorante de tu libro. Si escribes romántica, olvídalo. Tendrás suerte si escriben bien tu nombre en la lista de los más vendidos.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Libro, Escritura, Nombres

  "Jodi Picoult y Jennifer Weiner hablan sobre la disputa con Franzen: HuffPost Exclusive". Entrevista con Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. 26 de agosto de 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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