Best 108 quotes in «dictionary quotes» category

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....

Thank god I finally found love! Its on page 186 in the Oxford Dictionary...

The word "Enough”! It’s the common word, rather the only word, in the dictionary of satisfaction.

The lonely drudgery of lexicography, the terrible undertow of words against which men like Murray and Minor had so ably struggled and stood, now had at least it's great reward. Twelve mighty volumes; 414,825 words defined; 1,827,306 illustrative quotations used, to which William Minor alone had contributed scores of thousands.

The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.

There are occasions, however, when even S holds a secret delight or two in the form of a pink, such as the one I found among the citations (or "cits" for short) for "sex kitten": sex kitten sex pot There is no essential difference in these defs [definitions], but they're not the same. Some differentiation shd be made. The pink was written by one of our former physical science editors infamous for commenting as brusquely as possible on things beyond his remit... Another one of our science editors who was reviewing the batch later was apparently irritated by this note, and decided to comment on what he no doubt saw as needless meddling. His typewritten response to the note about "sex kitten" reads, "I will no doubt regret saying this but I think you have misconstrued the meaning of 'physical' science somewhere along here." But a pink's a pink. Steve acted on it for the Tenth, adding the word "young" to the definition for "sex kitten.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

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

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.

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

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

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

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

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 of Cat, mercy is missing.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.