Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in… — Dan Kieran Copy Share Image
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse;… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“ corgi 1. n. A high class hound, such as those that accompany the Queen. 2. n. A high class hound ,… — VIZ Copy Share Image
That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole.… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with… — Daniele Vare Copy Share Image
A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image