Dictionary Quotes · Page 5

I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service.

— David Linley

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

— Ruskin Bond

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

— Anne Sexton

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

— Nicole Krauss

The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

— Harry Cohn

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

— Giacomo Leopardi

I have no limits. There is no 'No' in my dictionary; nothing is impossible for me.

— Rekha

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

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

— Linus Pauling

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

— David Bowie

All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the…

— Emma Darcy

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of…

— Paul Johnson

“My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.”

— Alan Bradley

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I…

— Shefali Zariwala

In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a…

— Archie Shepp

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has…

— Raymond Burr

“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is…

— Roland Barthes

Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group…

— Terry Jones

Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend…

— Carla Gugino

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

When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be remember.Because all…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as…

— Mort W. Lumsden

The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard…

— H. Burke Peterson

Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s…

— Julia Quinn

I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how…

— M. J. Ryan

The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who…

— Lawrence Kaplan

“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what…

— Ambrose Bierce

Every one of the geezers who continues to play a leadership role has one quality of overriding importance: neotony. The dictionary definition…

— Warren G. Bennis

Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

— Ellen Hopkins

“The word 'impossible' ain’t in my dictionary.”

— Jessica Maria Tuccelli

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

— John Ralston Saul

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

— William Safire

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

— John Ralston Saul

“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart”

— Nikita Tak

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

— Mahatma Gandhi