I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning.… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
“Though a work of literature can be read in a number of ways, this number is finite and can be arranged in… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary, — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights... — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.' — Bernard Hopkins 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
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they… — 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
For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
“My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
