When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart” — Nikita Tak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Let's say punk rock was described to you as 'three chords of rock music played roughly.' Would that be sufficient? If you… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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 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 decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?” — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
