
“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of spell, spelling, word, wording.
“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”
Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.
“Just remember all caps when you spell the man name”
As Madvillain, "ALL CAPS", Madvillainy (2004)
Sourced Lines
Mansel, Philip, Constantinople: city of the world's desire 1453-1924 (1995), p. 84
Poetry
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”
Source: George Carlin Reads to You: An Audio Collection Including Recent Grammy Winners Braindroppings and Napalm & Silly Putty
“Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.”
Source: Witches Abroad
“It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?”
Source: Brilliance of the Moon
“I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature."”
As quoted in Quote magazine (14 August 1966)
Source: Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
in Denis Rouart (1972) Claude Monet, p. 21 : About his youth
after Monet's death
Swarup, Ram, & Goel, S. R. (1985). Hindu-Sikh relationship. (Introduction by S.R. Goel)
Actual source: A letter to The Economist (16 January 1971), written by one M.J. Shields (or M.J. Yilz, by the end of the letter). The letter is quoted in full in one of Willard Espy's Words at Play books. This was a modified version of a piece "Meihem in ce Klasrum", published in the September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j31/satires.php
Misattributed
Sec. 78
The Gay Science (1882)
<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span>
From Poetry
English and Welsh (1955)
Anonymous reviewer, as quoted in Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1965) by Nicolas Slonimsky, p. 126
About
BBC (2 December 2014) http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540
“Howling in the shadows,
living in a lunar spell,
he finds his heaven,
spewing from the mouth of hell.”
Bark at the Moon, written by Ozzy Osbourne
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)
Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat (1048–1123), translation by Richard Le Gallienne
Well, well, what matters it! believe that too. note: Not a literal translation of Omar Khayyám's work, but a paraphrase according to Richard Le Gallienne own understanding.
Source: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/525669afe4b0b689af6075bc/t/525e8a8ee4b0f0a0fb6fa309/1381927566101/Talib+--+Le+Gallienne%27s+Paraphrase+and+the+Limits+of+Translation+from+FitzGerald+Rubaiyat+volume.pdf pp. 175-176
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fitzgeralds-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/le-galliennes-paraphrase-and-the-limits-of-translation/CC05D35479CE33C2E66ABA8CF51F779B Le Gallienne's Paraphrase and the Limits of Translation']' by Adam Talib
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 121
“I don't give a damn for a man who can only spell a word one way.”
Unsourced in POP!: Create the Perfect Pitch, Title, and Tagline for Anything (2006) by Sam Horn.
Disputed
[The UNIX programming environment, Kernighan, Brian W., Brian Kernighan, Pike, Rob, w:Rob Pike, Prentice-Hall, 1984, 10269821, 0139376992], p. 204 http://books.google.com/books?id=poFQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22spell+creat+with+an+e%22&dq=%22spell+creat+with+an+e%22.
Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)
“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
Sometimes reported as having been a retort to statements of his political rival, John Quincy Adams, who had boycotted Harvard University's awarding of a Doctorate of Laws degree to Jackson in 1833, declaring "I would not be present to witness her [Harvard's] disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors on a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name." Quoted in News Reporting and Writing 4th edition (1987) by M. Mencher.
Unsourced variant: Never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
Likely misattributed http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/25/spelling/
http://www.bartleby.com/43/24.html
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
About first wife Margaret Sullavan. Haywire (1977) by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., pp. 162-63. ISBN 0224014269.
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 263
Mal sabendo ainda soletrar, já lia, sem perceber que estava lendo. Identificar na escrita do jornal uma palavra que eu conhecesse era como encontrar um marco na estrada a dizer-me que ia bem, que seguia na boa direcção. E foi assim, desta maneira algo invulgar, Diário após Diário, mês após mês, fazendo de conta que não ouvia as piadas dos adultos da casa, que se divertiam por estar eu a olhar para o jornal como se fosse um muro, que a minha hora de os deixar sem fala chegou, quando, um dia, de um fôlego, li em voz alta, sem titubear, nervoso mas triunfante, umas quantas linhas seguidas.
Source: Small Memories (2006), pp. 87–88
To Leon Goldensohn, July 15, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
1960s, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
Context: He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.
“The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 4
Context: The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell. In this house they think themselves happy; in that witty; in a third profound. It is all an illusion (which is nothing against it, for illusions are the most valuable and necessary of all things, and she who can create one is among the world's greatest benefactors), but as it is notorious that illusions are shattered by conflict with reality, so no real happiness, no real wit, no real profundity are tolerated where the illusion prevails.
“The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.”
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Context: The story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed.
“In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”
On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
Context: In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!
Dr. Mujeeb, his friend during their stay in Germany in 1922, p. 75.
About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999)
On being on Beverly Hills, 90210 when he was 17 in his band Kara's Flowers
Voss, Brandon (2007-05-22), "Adam Levine". Advocate. (986):25.
As attributed by Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches"). (2013) in “Interview with Dr. Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches")“ https://www.luther2017.de/en/wiki/martin-luther-and-the-witches/kai-lehmann-martin-luther-firmly-believed-in-witches/
Disputed
“Diaper spelled backwards is repaid, think about it.”
“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Source: Kill the Dead
“wats yr typ?
people who can spell”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Source: Dragon Wytch
“The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.”
“Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”