I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“Any dictionary, no matter how well made, was destined to go out of date. Words were living things.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it. — Elton Joe Kendall Copy Share Image
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart.… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't… — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
“About 35-40% of the time, a player wants to create a word ending in a specific letter. This, however, is not the… — Richard D. Ekstrom Copy Share Image
We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points… — Herman Melville 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
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
