Top 29 Quotes About Spell Check
#1. My word processor has spell-check capability, which lets me add words that didn't originally come in its comprehensive dictionary. It's interesting to see what words I had to add when writing this book: feedback, throughput, overshoot, self-organization, sustainability.
Donella H. Meadows
#2. And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality.
Douglas Coupland
#3. I made a note on my phone to create a Swiss Army Dillo but spell-check changed it to "Create a Swiss Army Dildo," which frankly just seems painful and excessive.
Jenny Lawson
#4. I'm not overweight. I'm simply overgravitated. Spell-check
Jenny Lawson
#6. I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
David Mamet
#7. If things do not change,in the future we may all speak spell check.
Tom Althouse
#8. What's the point of studying spelling when everyone's got spell-check?
Jennifer Bernard
#9. Is "defeatedly" a real word? As in, "She sighed defeatedly as spell-check implied that 'defeatedly' isn't a real word." Fuck it. It's going in the book, and I'm a pretty sure that makes it a real word. Me and Shakespeare. Making shit up as we go along.
Jenny Lawson
#10. If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
Dan Quayle
#11. God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?"
"No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.
Jodi Picoult
#12. The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.
Brian Christian
#13. Is "defeatedly" a word? As in, "She sighed defeatedly as spell-check implied that 'defeatedly' isn't a real word.
Jenny Lawson
#14. 'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
Richard Corliss
#15. I would never disable spell-check. That would be hubris. Autocorrect I could do without.
Mary Norris
#16. 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
#17. We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
Pierre Trudeau
#18. I'll write you a check. I'll write you a check. How do you spell Sheamus?
Santino Marella
#19. If you're too judgmental, you shut your self off to so much richness in the world.
Julia Kent
#20. I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#21. Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
John Patrick Shanley
#22. The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
Eric Schneiderman
#24. There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Lev Grossman
#25. I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.
Bruno Mars
#26. Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968] . The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
Bill Bryson
#27. Family, Love. Forgiveness. Those were powerful things.
Molly O'Keefe
#28. Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination.
Henry James
#29. Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.
Swami Vivekananda