Top 1200 Spell Check Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

If you want to see what I'll look like as an old guy, check out any recent photo of me.

I live in the modern world, and I appreciate the most cutting-edge parts of it. But I also like to check out as much as I can.

Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

What has happened is just cases of athletes neglecting to correctly check the supplement they've had. It's not like they are deliberately or intentionally cheating.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

I wouldn't say I'm strict. I love to communicate with my kids, and I constantly check in and try to talk things through instead.

I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

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.

I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

It was disappointing to be left out of the Premier League line-up, but it was a reality check to sit back and look on the bench.

I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.

Del Bosque was axed by Madrid for failing to retain the Champions League in 2003 but his sacking triggered the start of a spell when they won nothing for four years and failed to get beyond the Champions League's last 16.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

We have a reputation here in the Pelican State for daring to be different. We live in parishes, not counties. We spend our holidays throwing beads at people lining the street. We cook differently. We speak differently - we spell differently. There is no place in the country that compares to Louisiana.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

When I made my First-Class debut, my first spell was of 10 overs. So I was always used to bowling lot of overs in Ranji Trophy, which always helps.

Paris is a Roach Motel for top American journalists: They check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave.

'World Is Our Playground' is a big room banger that makes you wanna check into a hostel and call Mike Taylor.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

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.

For me, the first thing I do when I know I have to do the fastest skater is check my edges and make sure there's no nicks or anything like that.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

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.'

Xylophone is spelled with an X. That's wrong. It should be a Z up front. Next time you spell xylophone, use a Z. If someone says, "That's wrong!", you say, "No, it ain't." If you think that's wrong, then you need to have your head Z-rayed.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

When I got my first check from 'Rack City,' I was like, 'Damn, I can make this much money making beats?'

If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.