Dictionary Quotes · Page 11

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

— Rachel Cohn

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

— Mae West

I hate when I ask my mom how to spell something and she sais look it up in the dictionary. I would…

— Tanya Bianco

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and…

— Alan King

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those…

— Dorothy Fields

I dont even need a dictionary to find out what a moron is. Ive got the perfect definition standing right in front…

— Anonymous

I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole".

— Demetri Martin

“A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the…

— Napoleon Hill

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any…

— Harvey Pekar

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning…

— Vernon Howard

I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus…

— Craig Seymour

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a…

— William Stafford

me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning.…

— David Levithan

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words,…

— Shion Miura

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring…

— Anthony Marra

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the…

— Terry Pratchett

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

— Walter Lippmann

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the…

— Charles de Lint

“Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.”

— Olivia Sudjic

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the…

— Gustave Flaubert

I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.

— Kevin Sampsell

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.

— John Lithgow

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a…

— Shaquille O'Neal

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in…

— Peter Levi

“When I see a dictionary on my desk I feel like I'm looking at some strange dog leaving a twisty piece of…

— Haruki Murakami

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

— Jacob Zuma

“There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean.”

— Tom Holt

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means…

— William James

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

— Erin McKean

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

— John Mayer

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary…

— Anonymous

Check the dictionary for a P.I.M.P. And when you look it up, potnah tell me who ya see. Young J-O-C, yeah that's…

— Yung Joc

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

— Orrin Woodward

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.

— Wendy Mass

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna,"…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside…

— Maria Semple

“To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could…

— Michael Bassey Johnson