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 Copy Share Image
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible... — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that.… — French Montana Copy Share Image
I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems… — Alan Watts 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 want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh -… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Life is not when you find a word in the dictionary, it is when you type the wrong word and it gives… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.” — Eddie Cantor Copy Share Image
Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary. — William Cranch Bond Copy Share Image
