Proper Spelling Quotes & Sayings

You know vampires and solicitors - practically indistinguishable. — Gail Carriger

I regard the discovery of one's favorite author as the most critical event in one's intellectual development. — Lin Yutang

He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life. — Ian McEwan

Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight. — Josemaria Escriva

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything. — J. Oswald Sanders

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. — Franz Grillparzer

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get. — Joseph Kosinski

Yes, I do think that not everything from the past is outmoded. Giving yourself a chance to possess something very good, taking your time, that's important. Yes, I think everything goes by too fast these days. We talk too fast. We think too fast
if we think at all, that is! We send e-mails and texts without reading them through, we lose the elegance of proper spelling, politeness, the sense of things. I've seen children publish pictures of themselves vomiting on Facebook. No, no, i'm not against progress; I'm just afraid it will isolate people even more. — Gregoire Delacourt

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins. — Samuel Adams

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round. — Karl Kraus

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. — Clifford Stoll

Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least. — Douglas Hofstadter