Dictionary Quotes

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I'm into, it's real to me. There's nothing fake about it.

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

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

It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

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.

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

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.

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

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus would hang out with prostitutes. I would always focus on the prostitutes.

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 looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

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

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order.

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

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.

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

In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.