Best 108 quotes in «dictionary quotes» category

I want to read the entire dictionary, but I am afraid that someone is going to spoil the ending!

I wish I had a dictionary to translate mixed signals.

Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox--a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time.

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' appears to be missing.

Mistake is a single page in a part of Life .... but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose a full Book for a single page.

(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.

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

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

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

Novel: A small tale, generally of love.

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.

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Words of our hearts have their own 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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

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.

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

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.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

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.

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

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 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.

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