The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Who ever says words can't hurt you has never been hit in the face with a dictionary — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh -… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want… — Aaron Withers Copy Share Image
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Jaimie loved the dictionary even more than the television because it is the one book that contains all others.” — Robert Chazz Chute Copy Share Image
I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“It's like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want… — Aaron F Withers Copy Share Image
If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights... — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries — Andre Nickatina Copy Share Image
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“ Agatha Christie n . A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit.” — VIZ Copy Share Image
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
