Spell Quotes

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

Learned, Fact, Face

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

Good, Become, Picture

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'
Ronnie Dunn

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
Dick Schaap

Mistakes, Writing, Place

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
Johnny Mercer

Black, Down, Eyes

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.
April Winchell

Give, Afraid, Might

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton

Mother, Herself, Transform

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

Love, Speak, Name

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.
Len Goodman

Won, Eat, Tread

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
David Crystal

Best, Rather, Kids

I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Life, Time, Two

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, Remember, Difficult

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, Two, Strange

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman

Word, Affliction, Particular

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.
Richard Masur

Yourself, Words, Around

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
Martin O'Malley

America, Economy, Economics

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.
Matt Czuchry

Saying, Learn, Three

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Adela Florence Nicolson

Loved, Lies, Hands

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.
Antonio Perez

Moving, Space, Market

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
Lou Rawls

Time, Long, Enough

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.
Gene Sarazen

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