How To Spell Quotes

#1. Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

Erik Naggum

#2. A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

Maxine Kumin

#3. Hope? Yeah, I'm beginning to remember how to spell that word, too.

Stephen King

#4. Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

Kevin J. Anderson

#5. 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

#6. I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.

Juan Williams

#7. I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Chelsea Cain

#8. Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance.

Rachel Caine

#9. I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

Mark Twain

#10. 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

#11. All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.

Sarah Paulson

#12. If you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know.

Stephen King

#13. I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

Ronnie Dunn

#14. You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words or just not knowing how to spell them. If we ever get out of here, I'm going to make sure to learn all about them.

Norton Juster

#15. 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

#16. Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

Oscar Wilde

#17. 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

#18. This borders on mutiny," Marshall growled.
"Do you know how to spell mutiny?" This from Teague behind him.

Jessica Scott

#19. My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.

Shahla Khan

#20. Some people blamed his oddities on his dyslexia, which was so severe that one giddy pediatrician called it a gift: While he might never learn how to spell or read better than the average fourth grader, he'd always see things the rest of us couldn't.

Jim Lynch

#21. when they put unknown at the end of a quote, that means they probably don't no how to spell anonymous" -unknown

Tri T. Ha

#22. This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#23. In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#24. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

T.K. Naliaka

#25. How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

Yogi Berra

#26. That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

Stu Grimson

#27. It couldn't have been Eric. I'm pretty sure he couldn't even find a computer's on switch, let alone write actual emails on a regular basis. It took him forever just to learn how to spell his own name." Eric

Kylie Scott

#28. I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

Elizabeth Taylor

#29. County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when ... Hello?

Bill Watterson

#30. I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

Anthony Marra

#31. If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.

Frederick Buechner

#32. If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Patrick Swayze

#33. God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?"
"No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.

Jodi Picoult

#34. You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first

Aaron Withers

#35. When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Steve Jobs

#36. It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years
It took me that long to learn how to spell it.

Rocky Bridges

#37. If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.

Glenn Beck

#38. If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Beverly Cleary

#39. The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.

Marianne Williamson

#40. The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

Joseph Addison

#41. The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

Bruce Chatwin

#42. So hologram means
" I finally said.
"It means non-corporeal, yeah. Which sucks seeing as how there are a lot of very corporeal things I'd like to do with you right now.

Rachel Hawkins

#43. To give you an idea about how old I'm getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.

Christopher Gorham

#44. 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

#45. Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha

Thomas Jefferson

#46. So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

James Joyce

#47. Artemis: How long will it take you to prepare the time spell?
N1 chewed his knuckle: About as long as it takes you to take your clothes off.
"Aaarrk," Artemis half choked.

Eoin Colfer

#48. Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?"
"A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!"
"Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?"
"Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!

Rick Riordan

#49. 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

#50. How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

George Bernard Shaw

#51. I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.

Roja Dove

#52. 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

#53. You're a spelling bee champ, aren't you, White Fang? How do you spell, 'If I don't learn to speak to my betters with more respect, I'm going to get my face smashed in'?"

Tom laughed, unable to resist. "That one's easy. It's K-A-R-L.

S.J. Kincaid

#54. Allow me to spell it out for you," I said calmly. "I am still absolutely terrified of marriage, but I would marry you tonight if it was a way for me to prove how much I believe that you're the guy for me.

Monica Alexander

#55. When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

Cristela Alonzo

#56. 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

#57. I know what I want to eat, and I bet it's not on the menu. Regardless of how hot he made her, though, she needed to remind herself he was under a spell, meaning he was off limits no matter how much her body craved him. Big

Eve Langlais

#58. Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell may be broken or how Merlin may be released from it.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#59. Adam glanced at me. His grin was back. I'd forgotten how easily he could wind me up.
"You know, Eliza," he said, "maybe you're missing something here."
"You're going to be missing a few teeth if you don't explain yourself," I growled.

Sam Dogra

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. At this time, all students are to report to the greenhouse."
Scowling, I waved my arm through the spell. It swirled like smoke before dissolving. "Freaking drama queen," I muttered. "How hard would it have been to announce that last night? Or to just do the voice thing?

Rachel Hawkins

#63. And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Libba Bray

#64. I'm okay!" she called. "I broke my fall with a spell. Now I just have to figure out how to get marsh water out of my lady parts.

Amanda Carlson

#65. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.

Harold Klemp