Spelling Quotes · Page 4

Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from…

— Donna Tartt

Admit it: You can't spell subtext without buttsex.

— Anonymous

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A.,…

— Megan McCafferty

Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.

— Jim Gaffigan

“I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad…

— Kristin Cashore

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

— Billy Sherwood

At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created…

— Stefan Sagmeister

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let…

— Abraham Lincoln

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

— Craig Ferguson

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

— A. A. Milne

In the case of Tori Spelling, there were two apology emails.

— Andy Cohen

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out…

— Kandyse McClure

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look…

— Lynda Barry

“The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably. "Manners?" "Hah! Right, but no" "Muscle?…

— Terry Pratchett

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to…

— Yann Martel

“She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.”

— Lauren Child

About the prophecy that Rachel did at the end of "The Last Olympian," Percy Jackson will participate this prophecy, along with Annabeth?…

— Rick Riordan

I had no idea how many famous people [Andy Cohen] have unintentionally and hilariously insulted of late: Charlie Rose, his cousin Amber…

— Anderson Cooper

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly…

— Frank Smith

The Goat of Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of ancient Egypt where…

— Kerr Cuhulain

Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.

— David Rusenko

We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF…

— Michael Hudson

If you can spell 'Nietzsche' without Google, you deserve a cookie.

— Lauren Leto

“It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters.

— David Chiles