Subpoenaed Spelling Quotes

#1. They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent. #Quote by Oscar Wilde

#2. Aristotle and Bacon can therefore be seen respectively as the grandfather and the father of the modern branch of the philosophy of science called "confirmation theory," that is, the study of how scientific hypotheses and theories are confirmed by evidence. Evidence clearly has a very significant bearing on the decisions of scientific communities to accept or reject certain theories, but spelling out the precise nature of that relationship is difficult #Quote by Howard Margolis

#3. The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature ... the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God. #Quote by H.L. Mencken

#4. I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy ... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores. #Quote by Joss Whedon

#5. God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?"
"No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#6. When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back. #Quote by James Fenton

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

#8. I, myself, was always recognized ... as the "slow one" in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was ... an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#9. Moreover, in order to show forth her wisdom and the excellence of her mind to the centuries to come, she [Nicostrata/Carmentis] worked and studied so hard that she invented her own letters, which were completely different from those of other nations, that is, she established the Latin alphabet and syntax, spelling, the difference between the vowels and consonants, as well as a complete introduction to the science of grammar. #Quote by Christine De Pizan

#10. How many spelling misteaks are their in this sentence? #Quote by Anthony Horowitz

#11. In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word. #Quote by Gaston Bachelard

#12. In the first place, there is no point whatever in being able to spell anything. Shakespeare and Milton could not spell; Marie Corelli and Alfred Austen could. Spelling is thought desirable partly for snobbish reasons, as an easy way of distinguishing the "educated" from the "uneducated"; partly, like correct clothes, as a part of herd domination; partly because the devotee of natural law feels pain in the spectacle of any sphere in which individual liberty remains. #Quote by Bertrand Russell

#13. Love is pure and true; love knows no gender. #Quote by Tori Spelling

#14. This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years ... [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] ... I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed. #Quote by Mark Twain

#15. Always the pain, the chaos of composition. He could not find order in the field of little symbols. They were in the hazy distance. He could not clearly see the picture that is called a word. A word is also a picture of a word. He saw spaces, incomplete features, and tried to guess at the rest.
He made wild tries at phonetic spelling. But the language tricked him with its inconsistencies. He watched sentences deteriorate, powerless to make them right. The nature of things was to be elusive. Things slipped through his perceptions. He could not get a grip on the runaway world. #Quote by Don DeLillo

#16. Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling. #Quote by Brian Holguin

#17. Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#18. Babi (alt. spelling Baba) is a bloodthirsty Baboon God. #Quote by Patrick Auerbach

#19. Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar
the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved. #Quote by Yann Martel

#20. I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar! #Quote by Miriam

#21. And I know, that I know, that I know, we are about to see the greatest manifestations of God's presence ever! A prophetess named Ruth Heflin sent me a word recently and told me to get ready, to see, physical manifestations of Christ on the platforms in our crusades, that people will have visions of the Lord in the meetings. Those things have happened in the past, I know. In a Thialagua (spelling?) meeting one time in Africa, the Lord appeared to a - to the whole crowd! It is about to begin happening, I know it too! Expect it, to happen also, in your own home! #Quote by Benny Hinn

#22. No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey's name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they were spoken, seldom written. In fact, few had any concept of "spelling" - the idea that each word, when written, should take a particular predetermined form of letters. The word cony (rabbit) appeared variously as conny, conye, conie, connie, coni, cuny, cunny, and cunnie in a single 1591 pamphlet. #Quote by James Gleick

#23. I would have been a lot better off if I'd studied more when I was growing up, y'know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew. #Quote by Brian Regan

#24. After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs ... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. #Quote by Lauren Worsham

#25. I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level. #Quote by Tori Spelling

#26. Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need. #Quote by Kerry Greenwood

#27. There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling. #Quote by David Mitchell

#28. I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. #Quote by Mark Twain

#29. The two sexes are different to the core, and each is necessary - culturally and biologically - for the optimal development of a human being."12 In a summary of the relevant science, University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox finds much the same: Let me now conclude our review of the social scientific literature on sex and parenting by spelling out what should be obvious to all. The best psychological, sociological, and biological research to date now suggests that - on average - men and women bring different gifts to the parenting enterprise, that children benefit from having parents with distinct parenting styles, and that family breakdown poses a serious threat to children and to the societies in which they live.13 #Quote by Sherif Girgis

#30. I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar. #Quote by Emma Stone

#31. The walls were covered with graffiti and William passed the time correcting the spelling #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#32. My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together. #Quote by Tori Spelling

#33. I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year. #Quote by Jose Saramago

#34. Instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet. #Quote by Lauren Slater

#35. Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k ... a C-y-k ... " She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean! #Quote by Rick Riordan

#36. The ultimate reason why the democratic impulse is so strong - why we resist such differences - is that the sinful heart resents the final discrimination made in the judgment of God when He separates the sheep from the goats. Spelling tests smack of the Last Day. The way we manage our schools shows how, deep down, we would really like to abolish the Great White Throne Judgment. This resistance extends from the democratic government school system down to the most trivial awards ceremony. And judging from our awards ceremonies, many modern educators do not want God to separate the sheep from the goats. They want Him to hand out participant ribbons to all. #Quote by Douglas Wilson

#37. If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. #Quote by Beverly Cleary

#38. I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though. #Quote by Tori Spelling

#39. Oh, Captain Aubrey,' cried she, 'I have a service to beg of you.'
Mrs Fielding had but to command, said Jack, smiling at her with great affection; he was at her orders entirely - very happy - delighted - could not be more so.
'Why then,' she said, 'you know I am a little talkative - the dear Doctor has often said so, desiring me to peep down - but alas I am not at all writative, at least not in English. English spelling! Corpo di Baccho, English spelling! Now if I give you a dictation and you write it down in good English, I can use the words when I write to my husband.'
'Very well,' said Jack, his smile fading.
It was just as he had feared: and he must have been quite mistaken about the signals.
Mr Fielding was to understand that the excellent Captain Aubrey had saved Ponto from being drowned: Ponto now doted upon Captain Aubrey and ran up to him in the street. Wicked people therefore said that Captain Aubrey was Laura's lover. Should these rumours reach Mr Fielding he was to pay no attention. On the contrary. Captain Aubrey was an honourable man, who would scorn to insult a brother-officer's wife with dishonest proposals; indeed she had such confidence in his perfect rectitude that she could visit him without even the protection of a maid. Captain Aubrey knew very well that she would not ply the oar.
'Ply the oar, ma'am?' said Jack, looking up from his paper, his pen poised.
'Is it not right? I was so proud of it.'
'Oh yes,' said Jack #Quote by Patrick O'Brian

#40. You know what shows today are missing? Stars. #Quote by Aaron Spelling

#41. Flesh is the Bible's word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the "h" and spelling it in reverse, we have the word self. Flesh is the self-life: it is what we are when we are left to our own devices. #Quote by Billy Graham

#42. As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us. #Quote by Mark Twain

#43. I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime. #Quote by Tori Spelling

#44. I want to be a mom who listens. #Quote by Tori Spelling

#45. I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood. #Quote by Tori Spelling

#46. It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years. #Quote by Michael Morpurgo

#47. Spelling is improved when reading is done. #Quote by Stephen D. Krashen

#48. I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them. #Quote by Tori Spelling