I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly,… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting. — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.' — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him. — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A dream dictionary is a one-size-fits-all-palm-reading-astrology-column-in-the-newspaper-carrot-equals-penis secret-code decoder.” — Blythe Woolston Copy Share Image
If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that.… — French Montana Copy Share Image
And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English,… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary.” — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages. — Labrinth Copy Share Image
“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have the entire dictionary written on my dick. In case you Want me to put some words in your mouth. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary. — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Had my first day of school for this year. Safe to say I was ready to shove a heavily binded dictionary up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why are people still using a dictionary? I just type the words into Google and see if it corrects me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
