Top 100 Can't Spell Quotes
#2. The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.
Greg Giraldo
#3. I wouldn't take nothin' but a Ford: F-O-R-D, period. Ain't nothin' like a Ford. I wouldn't drive a Chevrolet 'cause I can't spell it.
Bruce Bruce
#4. Young bloods can't spell but they can rock you in Playstation
Mos Def
#5. So what if I can't spell Armaggedon? ... it's not the end of the world.
Stewart Francis
#6. Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!
Stephen Colbert
#7. I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.
Len Goodman
#8. So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.
Dorothy Parker
#9. A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
Baltasar Gracian
#11. I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.
Erin Richards
#12. I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.
Rose McGowan
#13. Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
Tom Lehrer
#14. He's got a new BMW now, thanks to the Galaxy. He can't spell it, but he can drive it like crazy.
Lawrence Block
#15. Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch
Roy Keane
#16. We live in a world that has practically no appreciation for quality, tradition, or classiness, and in which people who can't spell even common words get to decide what survives. That
Bill Bryson
#17. Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't spell later without the word late?
Gena Showalter
#18. I hated school ... One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell ...
Loretta Young
#19. One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
Bill Nye
#20. I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman
#21. I break an emcee off proper
Yo don't check me,
Ask your Moms and Pops,
Yo they respect me,
But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin'
You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"
KRS-One
#22. You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'
John Mayer
#23. Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin's temple. "Remember, bi***. You can't spell 'danger' without DNA."
Blam.
M T Anderson
#24. I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.
Cher
#25. You can't spell "parentry" without "try." Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you. At least you know how those turn out.
Stephen Colbert
#27. You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.
Si Robertson
#28. Hagrid gulped, but no words came out. "Could you write it down?" Harry suggested. "Nah - can't spell it. All right - Voldemort.
J.K. Rowling
#29. Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.
Rickey Russell
#30. I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.
Arj Barker
#31. You can't spell American without "I can.
A.D. Aliwat
#32. I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
Drew Barrymore
#33. You can't spell believe without a lie in the middle
Fabolous
#34. I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.
Mark Twain
#35. Dandy?" Sam was full-on scowling now. "What the hell does that scoundrel want?"
Finley returned his dark expression with one of her own. "You shouldn't use words you can't spell, mutton head.
Kady Cross
#36. Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
Will Rogers
#39. Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients
Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
Mos Def
#40. Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
Keith Richards
#41. As the old saying goes, you can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.
Brad Thor
#42. If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
Beverly Cleary
#43. The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.
Ron White
#44. Build a name. Personal branding is all about name building. I don't just mean alphabetical name, but a name that can be spelt in the skills you have and pronounced with the things you do
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.
Jim Butcher
#46. It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson
#47. He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.
A.A. Milne
#48. I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.
Mary Oliver
#49. I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
#50. Spell?" The priest proudly raised his head. "I'm not a godless sorcerer! I don't cast spells! My power comes from faith and prayer!" "Can you or can't you?" "I can." "Then get on with it, because time's pressing on." "Geralt,
Andrzej Sapkowski
#51. Don't drink too much."
"When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll have to get a shorter name."
"I'll have to forget how to spell it.
Richard Kadrey
#52. When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
Alan Alda
#53. I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.
Roy Keane
#54. It was written in the ancient RUNIX spell-language, and is read-only and can't be modified.
Jasper Fforde
#55. You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
A.A. Milne
#56. I don't mean to brag or anything, but I'm preparing for a very big role. Sure, it's a cinnamon roll, but I don't want to look like I can't finish it. Or spell it.
Jim Gaffigan
#57. I don't want to be fixed. Not by anybody but me. Just asking if you can see your way to hang around a spell while I do it.
Susan Fanetti
#58. Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
Nora Roberts
#59. Find one person in the audience and sing to them with all of your heart. And then cast a spell over them. Hoss, if you can't do it with feeling - don't.
Patsy Cline
#60. Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'
Vincent Van Gogh
#61. I'm sorry if he's bleeding internally. I hope he's not. But I'm not wasting a healing spell on a guy that pointed a gun at us."
"Can you do an 'I'm sorry' spell? I don't wanna get too near him."
"It's not the Staff of Hallmark, Mol.
Joss Whedon
#62. Defensive spells?" Professor Umbridge repeated with a little laugh. "Why, I can't imagine any situation arising in my classroom that would require you to use a defensive spell, Miss Granger. You surely aren't expecting to be attacked during class?
J.K. Rowling
#63. Talent alone isn't enough," said Marcus. "You must adhere to good spell design practices. Even the most talented wizards can get careless and sloppy.
Jeremy Kubica
#64. You can't do a blocking spell, and you've never heard of L'Occhio di Dio? Man, what kind of witch are you?
I had an incredibly nasty retort ready that involved his mother and the U.S. Navy, but before I could get it out ...
Rachel Hawkins
#65. You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world Because when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world
Siobhan Fahey
#66. I trust God because He's the best author. I think God doesn't spell out everything for us in life, but He does tell us how we can write our lives better; and trusting Him implicitly is always the right place to start.
Bob Goff
#67. If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.
Lorrie Moore
#68. There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?
Michael Gambon
#69. Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love
with the sun.
Kresley Cole
#70. I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.
Brian Clough
#71. That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.
Terry Pratchett
#72. Sanguine: Shackles can't hold me, pretty lady. I'm immune to just about every binding spell I reckon you ever heard of, and a few more you haven't. That's what makes me special
Tanith: That and your psychopathic tendencies
Sanguine: Oh, they don't make me special. They just make me fun.
Derek Landy
#73. An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.
Chip Heath
#74. I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
#75. You have me under your spell.
With all the secrets you tell.
I can't make it stop.
Please don't let it stop.
You have me under your spell.
If you knew me as well,
You would make it stop.
I can't let it stop.
Kasie West
#76. Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you ... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
Stephen Sondheim
#77. We're all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rodgers
#78. Hey this is Lenore! Yup, it sure is Lenore! Huh, maybe he can't hear me, maybe I should spell it. L-e-n-o-p
There's no p in Lenore , Lenore.
Oh yeah? Then what's this raggamuffin? Pssssssssssss
Aaaaagh! How are you even projecting it at that angle!?!
Roman Dirge
#79. When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.
Joan Bauer
#80. 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
#81. It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
#82. Sex is a three letter word even the worst speller in the world can spell.
Chloe Thurlow
#83. Augusta created a magical object called the Interpreter Stone, and I came up with a simpler magical language to go along with it. So now, instead of reciting a difficult verbal spell, a sorcerer can use the simpler language to write his spell on cards and feed it to the stone.
Dima Zales
#84. I'm delirious," said Howl. "Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders," said Sophie. "Why can't you cure yourself with a spell?"
"Because there is no cure for a cold," Howl said dolefully.
Diana Wynne Jones
#85. You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.
Wynton Marsalis
#86. I can't bring myself to move. Because as soon as I do, it will be time to be polite and matter-of-fact and back to normal. And I can't bear that. I want to stay here. In the place where we can say anything to each other. In the magic spell.
Sophie Kinsella
#87. GUY TIP #18:
Just because you can urinate anywhere you want doesn't mean you should-even if your aim is so good you can spell out "Red Sox Rule" in capital letters with once taking a break.
Jenny O'Connell
#88. Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
Douglas Coupland
#89. She's probably so mesmerized by her own beauty she can't move away from the mirror," I hear Wilbur stage-whisper. "It's why I'm always late." Then he knocks on the door as well. "Look away from the reflection, baby," he shouts through the wood. "Just look away and the spell will be broken.
Holly Smale
#90. How d'you spell 'belligerent'?" said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. "It can't be B - U - M - "
"No, it isn't," said Hermione. "And 'augury' doesn't begin O - R - G either.
J.K. Rowling
#91. I quite enjoy the banter actually. I mean, you don't meet many females who can come back at you as fast as you can throw it out at them. I prefer a more graphic dialogue as a forerunner to sex though: if they have the guts to spell it out for me in glorious Technicolor that always gets my interest.
Poppet
#92. I can do nothing but think of you ... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#93. Ale Perez What happened to your right hand?
TCKeller hucky made me finger-spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious untill he got it right. it took an hour and a half. i still can't hold a fork. what's the favour.
Steve Kluger
#94. The value of darkness can never be measured
if you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured
Munia Khan
#95. How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?
Sue Grafton
#96. It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?
Lian Hearn
#97. Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
Agatha Christie
#98. You can have everything you want. All you need is a plan. And how do we spell plan? B-U-D-G-E-T!
Gail Vaz-Oxlade
#99. And I just know that this memory will be forever burned into my brain, because this kind of magic - the kind that can't be conjured with a spell, where everything is just right, and all your problems vanish for three perfect minutes - doesn't happen everyday.
Michelle Krys
#100. Happily, the sorcerer returns just in time to break the spell and end the disaster. The implied lesson of the story is not to meddle with forces you can't control.
Aubrey Sherman
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