Dictionary Quotes

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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

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

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

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.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

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

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

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

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

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

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

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

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

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

Life is our dictionary.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

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

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

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

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

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

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

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

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.