Best 108 quotes in «dictionary quotes» category

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

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.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

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

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

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

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!

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.

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.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

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.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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

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

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To make dictionaries is dull work.

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

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'!

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

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.

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

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

About 35-40% of the time, a player wants to create a word ending in a specific letter. This, however, is not the way we traditionally think, and, not to mention, this is not the way dictionaries are sorted. In other words, in many situations, conventional dictionaries are not arranged in an easy to use manner. This dictionary solves that problem by sorting on the last letter of the word.

A good dictionary can only help.

Aleister Crowley once stated that the most important grimoire, or book of magical instruction, that anyone could ever conceivably own would be an etymological dictionary, and in my opinion he was exactly right. I keep it right here by my desk, and just 10 minutes ago it confirmed for me that I had the spelling of “proprioception” right all along, even though my spell-checker had raised a crinkly red eyebrow.

As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me. The funny thing is that okayness is not a real word. It's not in the dictionary. But it's in me.

A single act is worth a thousand thoughts

breathtaking, adj. Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

A dictionary of all the words we did not say.

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?