He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service. — David Linley Copy Share Image
“I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Thank you Urban Dictionary for being there in times of need when I have no earthly clue what people are talking about. — Hannah B Copy Share Image
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Any dictionary, no matter how well made, was destined to go out of date. Words were living things.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Let's say punk rock was described to you as 'three chords of rock music played roughly.' Would that be sufficient? If you… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.' — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts. — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary! — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
