Dictionary Quotes

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

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

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.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

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

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

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

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

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

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

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

Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary.

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

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

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.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

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

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this would have to be it.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

To make dictionaries is dull work.