Best 108 quotes in «dictionary quotes» category

Never allow yourself to be defined by your past; ‘yesterday’ is just a word, not a dictionary.

Novel: A small tale, generally of love.

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an aquarium; I see everything close up and yet cut off, made of some other substance; I keep falling outside myself, without dizziness, without blue, into precision.

One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...

Since you cannot always carry and display your diploma. Kindly act like you have one. Professionalism. Include that to your dictionary.

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....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 only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

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

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 am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

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

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

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

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

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

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 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 think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

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

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

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

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