Top 1200 Spell Check Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

'Spell it Out' rose to be number 4 on the best-selling Amazon chart - ahead of 'Fifty Shades of Grey!' Who ever would have thought that spelling would one day beat sex - even if it was for only a few hours!

You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

I got a job as a coat check girl at a nightclub - this was in my first few months of being in L.A.

Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.

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.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

I'm not the biggest fan of airports. I try to arrive a few minutes before check-in closes.

Without the hand check rule, players are more likely to work their way open.

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

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?

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

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.

If you're going to talk about me behind my back, at least check out my great ass.

I've gotta check, but I think I'll be the first UFC fighter in history to have the lead role in a big movie.

I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

I profoundly believe that the Democratic Party is the only vehicle we have to put a check on Donald Trump.

Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

When I want to check out how my lifes been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.

Salman Khan is always aware of what I am doing. He is my check point for everything I do, what I should do and what I shouldn't.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.

I was djing before I was rapping. I was calling myself Mike Geronimo and spelling it like Mike but he was just like spell it M-i-c. I was like that's ill cuz it stands out.

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with 'Cold in July,' and I wanted to give it another go.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.