“Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse… — Mortimer Adler 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
Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries. — Voltaire 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
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realize what an arbitrarily selective work the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't… — Greg Graffin 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
“The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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
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
Had my first day of school for this year. Safe to say I was ready to shove a heavily binded dictionary up… — Anonymous 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
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll… — Aimee Mann 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
Larousse Gastronomique is a veritable dictionary of cooking terms for the French kitchen. If a chef were allowed only one book, this… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Why are people still using a dictionary? I just type the words into Google and see if it corrects me. — Anonymous 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
The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
“If you're unable to find your face in the dictionary, then take this opportunity to define yourself.” — Faydra D. Fields Copy Share Image
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope,… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
For the first time I watched Big Bang Theory. Loved it! ¨But what's it come to when I need a dictionary to… — Jaimie Fayt Copy Share Image
“It is best, in fact, to assume that every verbal illustration you write will offend someone, somewhere, at some point.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting. — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
