Spells Quotes

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It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage,… — Zelda Fitzgerald
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey
We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic. — Shunryu Suzuki
Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love. — Joan Walsh Anglund
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
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and… — Arthur Eddington
There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth. — Michael Gambon
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… — Richard E. Pattis
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… — Louis D. Brandeis
Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. — Jonathan Raban
Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. — Zelda Fitzgerald
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the… — Rowan Williams
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret… — Mary Ruefle
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the… — Anna Politkovskaya
It was about finding the sacred within myself, my center, my peaceful core. We each have a sacred space within us, a part of us.… — Christopher Penczak
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
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… — Gary Gygax
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… — Ferdinand Mount
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… — O. Henry
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells. — Lian Hearn

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