Best 108 quotes in «dictionary quotes» category

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf."

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English, and editors are prescriptivist in so far as they don't want to let things they consider to be inelegant or ungrammatical into print.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

To make dictionaries is dull work.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.