I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions. — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
Even with every word in the dictionary, some feelings just can't be expressed. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary — Dave Kellett Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“My definition of dictionary can’t be found in the dictionary. Dictionary—A linguistic prison, confining words to well-defined cells, with little chance of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in… — Dan Kieran Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
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