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
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
The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds.… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so… — Erin McKean 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
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts:… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
