Dictionary Quotes · Page 12

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really…

— Rashida Jones

“A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope,…

— Shion Miura

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean,…

— John Hodgman

For the first time I watched Big Bang Theory. Loved it! ¨But what's it come to when I need a dictionary to…

— Jaimie Fayt

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow…

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

“If you're unable to find your face in the dictionary, then take this opportunity to define yourself.”

— Faydra D. Fields

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway”

— William Faulkner

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

— Guy de Maupassant

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost…

— Italo Calvino

My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for…

— Maria Teresa Horta

With "marriage," the word gets applied to same-sex marriages by proponents and opponents alike. That means the word itself is changing, and…

— Kory Stamper

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the…

— Simon Winchester

Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my…

— Toni Morrison

“My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in…

— Anonymous

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my…

— Craig Brown

I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the…

— Studs Terkel

For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been…

— Joe Dunthorne

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

— William Cranch Bond

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

— John Henry Newman

“They've really begun the war," he said to himself. "And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!”

— Natalie Babbitt

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

— Bryan Caplan

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

— Billy Graham

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

— Kapil Dev

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

— Orrin Woodward

Check the dictionary for a P.I.M.P. And when you look it up, potnah tell me who ya see. Young J-O-C, yeah that's…

— Yung Joc

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

— Erin McKean

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

— John Mayer

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary…

— Anonymous

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for…

— Saffron Burrows

“To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.

— Wendy Mass

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna,"…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside…

— Maria Semple

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

— Jacob Zuma

“When I see a dictionary on my desk I feel like I'm looking at some strange dog leaving a twisty piece of…

— Haruki Murakami

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

— Joe R. Lansdale

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in…

— Peter Levi

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a…

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— William James

“There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean.”

— Tom Holt