It's very easy, when things like the gay marriage write-in happen, to get sick of how people view language and say, "ah,… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts:… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought oh, we caught the dictionary in racism, or all it takes is a whole bunch of people… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Life is not when you find a word in the dictionary, it is when you type the wrong word and it gives… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they… — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realize what an arbitrarily selective work the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
