I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary. — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not… — Gerhard Richter 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
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a… — Ira Gershwin 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
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that… — D. A. Carson 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
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought oh, we caught the dictionary in racism, or all it takes is a whole bunch of people… — Kory Stamper 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
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
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts:… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words,… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus… — Craig Seymour 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
There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
