A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous.… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart.… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't… — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
