According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's… — John Prine Copy Share Image
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge 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
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
First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. — Jeff B. Davis 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
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel. — John Mayer 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
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
