Best 108 quotes in «dictionary quotes» category

When I see a dictionary on my desk I feel like I'm looking at some strange dog leaving a twisty piece of poop on our lawn out back.

Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Words of our hearts have their own dictionary

You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine, sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!” In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina, who smiled sheepishly. “Sorry. I was reading the Dictionary the other day.” I stared at her with incomprehension.

All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

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

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

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

You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our dictionary is where you go to learn anything about anything. That really set the tone in North America for how people responded to dictionaries.

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

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

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

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

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

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.

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

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

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 of Cat, mercy is missing.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

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

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.

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

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

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

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

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

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

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.

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

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

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

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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

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

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

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.