Misspelled Quotes & Sayings

When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive? — Sage Francis

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. — Steven Wright

The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry. — Jay Leno

I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced shh. — Miranda July

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? — Steven Wright

By the second week of November 1990, a new character had begun to spring forth in Kurt's journal writings, and this figure would soon make its way into almost every image, song, or story. He intentionally misspelled its name, and in doing so he was granting it a life of its own. Oddly, he gave it a female persona, but since it became his great love that Fall - and even made him throw up, just like Tobi - there was a fairness in this gender choice. He called it 'heroine'. — Charles R. Cross

Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words. — Craig Ferguson

Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters. — Conan O'Brien

Jay: Looks like you misspelled the Treaty of Versailles.
Sara: Yeah, well. My brother's natural ability for languages didn't rub off on me.
Jay: ... I'm not talking about Versailles. I have no idea if you spelled that right. I'm talking about the word 'treaty. — Tracy Bilen

On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline — Liane Moriarty

Jazon and Mical. What kind of mother misspelled her kids' names on purpose? — Barbara Kingsolver

She and Felicity didn't tolerate the overly skinny, the overly sporty, the overly rich or the overly intellectual. They laughed at people with personal trainers and small dogs, people who put overly intellectual or misspelled comments on Facebook, people who used the phrase "I'm in a very good place right now" and people who always got "involved" - people like Cecilia Fitzpatrick. Tess and Felicity sat on the sidelines of life smirking at the players. — Liane Moriarty

Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot. — Bennett Madison

Well," said Stuart, "a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone. — E.B. White

For some idiot reason, the idea of going into the drink with a misspelled safety device weirded Bryce out. — Harry Turtledove

All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It's not a tough job. I haven't misspelled one name yet. — Harvey Kuenn

In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another. — Bart D. Ehrman

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. — Henry Rollins

I knew that in the second letter he misspelled the word existence, replacing the second e with an a; in the fourth he forgot to dot the i in believe. I slept with them not under my pillow but clutched in my hand, with the sweat from my dreams leaking from my palms and smudging the ink. — Leslye Walton

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. — William T. Sherman

And last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading ... excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors ... I'm not a proofreader of any great merit. — Mark Twain

In Writing: be attentive enough to detail to spell the person's name correctly. My name is misspelled all the time; Ramsay with an AY, not an EY. It's not much of a personal follow-up if the recipient feels insignificant. — Beth Ramsay

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus

Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections of weird stuff they had found. Bizarre, misspelled letters written by lovelorn eighth graders. Obscene Polaroids left in between the pages of library books. They used to call each other on the phone to share their latest discovery, and Critter had always remained a little off to the side, never feeling quite as sharp or ironic as they were. Critter was an electrician, primarily home repair, and so he didn't usually come across anything except bad wiring and faulty lighting fixtures. — Dan Chaon

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be? — Libba Bray

If the words of this book are misspelled, but accidentally spell other words correctly, and also accidentally fall into a grammatically coherent arrangement, where coherency is defined as whatever doesn't upset people, it means this book is legally another book, and not this book. — Ben Marcus

The fact that he misspelled "pumpkin" made Cath wince. — Rainbow Rowell

If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note - do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. — Lisa Jakub

Have you tried calling her?" Daryl asked, easing the tension around us only slightly. "No," I answered, shaking my head. "Only texts." "What the fuck is with your generation? A phone is for talking. You know, with your voice? You think she wants to hear from you through misspelled words? She wants to hear you, man. Call her. — K.M. Scott

In describing the creation of man, the Torah says, "The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the earth and blew into him the breath of life." It's interesting to note that the Hebrew word for formed, which is vayiezer, was misspelled in the Bible, having used the Hebrew letter iud twice.
The word vayiezer can also mean inclinations, and from what we understand, when man was formed, he had inside of him two completely different inclinations. — Celso Cukierkorn

Grass Fires"
No ease for the boy at his keyhole,
his telescope,
when the women's white bodies flashed
in the bathroom. Young, my eyes began to fail.
In the grandiloquent lettering on Mother's coffin
Lowell had been misspelled LOVEL
The corpse
was wrapped like panetone in Italian tinfoil
Father's death was abrupt and unprotesting.
His vision was still twenty-twenty.
After a morning of anxious, repetitive smiling,
his last words to Mother were:
"I feel awful."
He smiled his oval Lowell smile ...
It has taken me the time since you died
to discover you are as human as I am ...
If I am. — Robert Lowell

Her given name was Lucinda but she'd called herself Juveline since age fifteen, when she'd been caught selling knockoff Burberry totes and a cop at the booking desk misspelled the word "juvenile." Big — Carl Hiaasen

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his. — Jonathan Lethem

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. — Harlan Ellison

My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!' — KaDee Strickland

Love is nothing but lust misspelled. — Dan Simmons

I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled. — Anthony Jeselnik

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age. — Hedi Slimane