Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary. — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts. — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary. — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
It's very easy, when things like the gay marriage write-in happen, to get sick of how people view language and say, "ah,… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English,… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
