The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense… — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions. — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they… — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a… — Ira Gershwin 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
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never… — Steven Weinberg 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
The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought oh, we caught the dictionary in racism, or all it takes is a whole bunch of people… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
