When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart” — Nikita Tak Copy Share Image
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I have no limits. There is no 'No' in my dictionary; nothing is impossible for me. — Rekha Copy Share Image
I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it. — Elton Joe Kendall Copy Share Image
“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the… — Emma Darcy Copy Share Image
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
Oprah played a big role in my understanding of what it meant to be female and to really step into your own… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be remember.Because all… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?” — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
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