Dictionary Quotes
I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.
I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.
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.
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.
You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.
We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.
The word 'romance, ' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day
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.
I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language
I realized that the knowledge I gained over this period in my life was power, and it felt like a waste not to share that wealth with the world, with people who could benefit,
In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it.
With time we learn that the things we're better off without have the ability to lead us somewhere better than we were before.
I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming right back to us.
I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it forged what felt like a wasteland of a reality.
One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...
To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.
Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.
You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first
Darkness is more than a shade of nightfall. It is a feeling as though there has been an eclipse not only within what should be a vibrant life inside you but in all that is good around you.
People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.
Since you cannot always carry and display your diploma. Kindly act like you have one. Professionalism. Include that to your dictionary.
I opened up a dictionaryAnd tried to find a meaning in a hurry.Turned the pages to look for the word -- "Perfect"And saw you listed there, coz I know you're worth it!
If it's any consolation, Princess, I think he's a supercilious, salacious sap.""You've been reading the dictionary!""My only hope of comprehending your conversation, my petite sesquipedalian.
What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.
The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.
elliptical, adj.The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.
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.
Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel