Dictionary Quotes · Page 3

“A single act is worth a thousand thoughts”

— Michael Oduah

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera

Life is our dictionary.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everyone uses their own dictionary.”

— Robert Jacoby

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

— Eugene Delacroix

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

— John Wooden

“The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.”

— Vidal Sassoon

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

— Gertrude Stein

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

— Vince Lombardi

Lead Your Life Similar To A Dictionary, Providing Meaning To Everyone Who Refers You.

— Anonymous

Girl: h3Y!!! WUt yEuW DuIn?? Me: About to throw a dictionary at your face -.-

— MLY AB

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse;…

— Alice Sebold

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used…

— Alexander Theroux

“ corgi 1. n. A high class hound, such as those that accompany the Queen. 2. n. A high class hound ,…

— VIZ

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can…

— Cassandra Clare

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with…

— Lewis Carroll

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

— Steven Pinker

There are 1,025,109 words in the dictionary and not a single one of the can describe how I feel about you.

— Anonymous

“Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense…

— Initially NO

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The…

— Ken Wilber

I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh…

— Marvin J. Ashton

I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to…

— John Boyne

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To…

— Alan Thein Durning

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle…

— Cassandra Clare

H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are…

— Bill Barich

I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I…

— Max Muller

Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony…

— Igor Stravinsky

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded…

— Lenny Bruce

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

— Martin H. Fischer

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

— Julia Roberts

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

— Monique Wittig

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

— Steven Wright