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
“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 Copy Share Image
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of… — W. Eugene Smith 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
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. — David Crystal 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
I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there. — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute… — Rudy Giuliani 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
You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. — Albert J. Nock 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
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
