Top 219 Spells Quotes & Sayings

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

All my spells smell like burnt hair lately.

We all go through difficult spells.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

As an actor you have good spells and bad spells.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

I am happy with my batting form. I have been bowling well, too, and have bowled long spells.

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

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!

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Fear too often spells failure.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I'd be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I'd get dizzy spells.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long.

The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle

Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

I'm now comfortable bowling long spells. Strength training has brought the pace up.

I arrived at Arsenal in 2010, and had five spells out on loan - plus another one with Oxford where I played just once.

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.

When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

If there are three seamers, we don't need to be bowling long spells. Either way, it doesn't matter to me whether I am going to be bowling short or long spells.

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

When I was at Everton, I went through a lot of up and down spells, lacking in confidence.

The loan spells were great, I always pushed for them.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

I look up spells for the heck of it. I haven't done any spells but I don't think that they wouldn't work.

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

I'm always trying to improve whether by being more consistent, accurate, fitter or able to bowl longer spells.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.