Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole". — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I dont even need a dictionary to find out what a moron is. Ive got the perfect definition standing right in front… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds.… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I hate when I ask my mom how to spell something and she sais look it up in the dictionary. I would… — Tanya Bianco Copy Share Image
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. — Jeff B. Davis Copy Share Image
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops. — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
“ suffuse , v. I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life" -Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I took a dictionary off my shelf to look up the definition of soulmate, and underneath the word soulmate I found you. ~ — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“It is best, in fact, to assume that every verbal illustration you write will offend someone, somewhere, at some point.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
