Dictionary Quotes · Page 10

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a…

— Carl Sandburg

“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary.”

— Lindsay Buroker

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she…

— Anonymous

“A dream dictionary is a one-size-fits-all-palm-reading-astrology-column-in-the-newspaper-carrot-equals-penis secret-code decoder.”

— Blythe Woolston

“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.”

— Ken Scott

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

— Labrinth

I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's…

— Jon Scieszka

In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of…

— Henry David Thoreau

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to…

— Beverly Cleary

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning.…

— Geoffrey Rush

“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that…

— Richard Dawkins

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without…

— Paul Engle

When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what…

— Andrew Bird

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind…

— Jessica Valenti

¡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

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly,…

— Sam Hamill

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

— Les Dawson

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

— Oscar Wilde

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are,…

— David Levithan

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

— Loni Anderson

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

— Iain McGilchrist

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

— Henry Rollins

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

— Erin McKean

“It is best, in fact, to assume that every verbal illustration you write will offend someone, somewhere, at some point.”

— Kory Stamper

I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It…

— Franny Billingsley

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is…

— Pranab Mukherjee

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as…

— Lewis Carroll

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not…

— Gerhard Richter

I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature…

— James Patterson

I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words…

— Susie Dent

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up…

— Will Cuppy

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

— Everett Dirksen

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and…

— Jay Leno

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

— Andy Samberg

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

— Jeff B. Davis

I took a dictionary off my shelf to look up the definition of soulmate, and underneath the word soulmate I found you. ~

— Kemis Khan

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

— Ambrose Bierce

“ suffuse , v. I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.”

— David Levithan