Top 100 Quotes About Spells
#1. You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'
John Mayer
#2. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
S.D. Gordon
#3. The big spells," Mg. Thane answered, his expression plain but his bright eyes smiling. Did he know how much those eyes gave away?
Charlie N. Holmberg
#4. Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.
Stephen D. Krashen
#7. We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's common.
Neil Gaiman
#8. Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
Honore De Balzac
#9. Jesus first, others next, and yourself last spells J-O-Y.
Linda Byler
#10. In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
Dr. Seuss
#11. He had begun to have spells lately of worrying that he had died, and that everyone knew it but him.
Anne Tyler
#12. I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
V.S. Pritchett
#13. Light-headed, my body trembling from shoes to shoulders in random spells, like I swallowed a vibrator. It's always like this when I'm on the sauce. I dosed six hours ago.
David Wong
#14. The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don't work.
J.K. Rowling
#15. Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
Benjamin Walker
#16. If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
Deb Caletti
#17. Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
Theodore Roosevelt
#18. We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells.
Victoria Lincoln
#19. I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!
Samuel Lover
#20. Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
Eric Hoffer
#22. There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.
Paul W. K. Rothemund
#23. If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
Peter J. Carroll
#24. I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
Josh Billings
#25. She had often wished for adventure, for old spells and wicked kings.
Sarah J. Maas
#26. Witches release the chapters of the past, which
invites the novels of the future.
Dacha Avelin
#27. If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#28. Handsome men could cast spells of magic that would cloud a woman's mind, no matter how chaste she was.
Emma Lane
#29. I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.
Karisma Kapoor
#30. Not everything has to be done with herbs and oils. In fact, when it comes to any kind of business-related magic, I much prefer a consecrated metal talisman or paper seal hidden away, rather than a bulky bag that smells like a hippie is hiding in my pocket.
Jason G. Miller
#32. Is she for real?" He paused and reconsidered. "Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don't get me wrong. I drink blood and control people's minds. But I've never heard of anything like this.
Richelle Mead
#33. There are a number of good spells for making an animal speak," Aruendiel said to Nora. "It is far more difficult to make them say anything worth listening to." "That
Emily Croy Barker
#34. Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
Nora Roberts
#36. Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts
his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars
Allen Ginsberg
#37. You will come to the woods and choose your mate.
Molly Ringle
#39. Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.
Martin Luther
#40. When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
Aeschylus
#42. One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.
Steve Goodier
#43. She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.
Lauren Child
#44. Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.
Shannon Phillips
#45. You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.
Si Robertson
#46. We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
Shunryu Suzuki
#47. Longbottom causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending what's left of Finch-Fletchley up to the hospital wing in a matchbox.
J.K. Rowling
#48. When you embrace a sacred relationship with your inner witch, you awaken within you qualities of the elements and forces of nature. This is the discovery and the connection of your powerful self.
Dacha Avelin
#49. Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Gary Gygax
#50. Dark witches do the bigger things," Chaston offered. "And our powers are a hell of a lot stronger. We can make barrier spells, and if we're really good, control the weather. We're also necromancers if
" "Whoa!" I held up my hand. "Necromancers? Like, power over dead things?
Rachel Hawkins
#51. Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.
Rich Sommer
#52. Aramaic has no vowels. So MLK spells Moloch." "Or milk," Deborah said. "Really, Debs, if you think our killer would tattoo milk on his neck, you need a nap.
Jeff Lindsay
#53. Here it is,' Nigel said.
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'
How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?
Roald Dahl
#54. You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideals come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an ideal next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett
#55. I'm not helping any of you freaks!" she shouts. "I'm not the Witch of Wayland, you hear me? I'm sick of all you mutants pounding on my door for love spells and all the like! I told you, I don't do that backwoods modern-day, wannabe Wiccafuck stuff! You hear me?
J.A. Redmerski
#56. Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ... with wordless variety ... She spells the name of Love.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#57. After so many months of hoping, long spells of illness and worry and confinement, I hold in my arms my darling child. Everything else fades away. She is perfect.
Kate Morton
#58. But when I shut my eyes and am in Pushkar again, in the room that spells out the formula for joy (clean sheets, hot water, books to borrow and the promise of blue hills in the distance), I see the window with its green shutters, casting the room in that happy gloom that only shuttered windows can.
Devapriya Roy
#59. Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard.
Kim Harrison
#60. Yes I understand your spells - your sex magic - at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in ...
John Geddes
#61. It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.
Natalie Valdes
#62. No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's.
William H. Seward
#63. I like the old wisdom
puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.
Mason Cooley
#64. That could be a problem," Glo said, "since I seem to have made a combination of two spells. But here's the good news. I didn't have any powdered newt snot, so the spell is most likely temporary.
Janet Evanovich
#65. Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.
Robert Todd Carroll
#66. She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.
Elizabeth Strout
#67. Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.
Richard Eberhart
#68. Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.
Marvin Hamlisch
#69. Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
Lian Hearn
#70. A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their success together in the end. Your party should be as close to you as your family--assuming your family can cast spells, kill monsters, and bring you back from the edge of death.
Matt Forbeck
#71. I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
Anais Nin
#72. The green has widened for an Arcadian delight, and over the sky, the sun had departed. But the moonlit beams unshackled the sulky spells of life. Moon adorned with eloquent jewelry of purple as a semblance to her inward gloom and outward passion.
Nithin Purple
#73. Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher
#74. Simon, imagine what we could do with your power and my spells. We could finish the Humdrum off by dinner - and then take on hunger and world peace.
Rainbow Rowell
#75. This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.
Nick Lake
#76. The vain woman spent fortunes seeking out astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians who would concoct spells and potions to preserve her beauty and help her remain looking young--but envy is hard to cover.
Camron Wright
#78. Maybe there was a magic stronger than spells. Maybe the soulmate principle was responsible, and if two people were meant to be together, nothing could keep them apart.
L.J.Smith
#79. That Damon Matthews," Linda spat. "You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ' damn' as in 'damn, that kid's a worthless sonovabitch'.
Kristen Ashley
#80. But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain.
P.G. Wodehouse
#82. Words shall not be hid
nor spells buried
might shall not sink underground
though the mighty go.
Elias Lonnrot
#83. Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain.
Ray Bradbury
#84. I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#85. Had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.
Andrew Lang
#86. Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.
Gene Wolfe
#87. The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
Louis D. Brandeis
#89. The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#90. For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount
#91. I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.
Sean Bean
#92. We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
Will Rogers
#93. Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories
J.R.R. Tolkien
#94. Lorth spoke a word and came into focus, though he had learned from experience that his features, the ghost-pale skin of a Northman with the gold-green eyes of a wolf, were almost as unnerving to a Tarthian as the shadowy form of a cloaking spell.
F.T. McKinstry
#95. The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
Herman Melville
#97. Somehow I had tamed the nightmare, cast a spell over it. But sleeping things wake and spells wear off, especially those cast by accident, and beneath its placid surface I could feel the hollow boiling. Addison
Ransom Riggs
#98. You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!
Dacha Avelin
#99. Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
Buwei Yang Chao
#100. There are pages ripped out and taped all over one wall. (Not taped - stuck to the wall with spells.) (And this is exactly the sort of thing I'm sick of. Like, just use some tape. Why come up with a spell for sticking paper to the wall? Tape. Exists.)
Rainbow Rowell
