I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts. — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.' — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner 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
“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
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
“Any dictionary, no matter how well made, was destined to go out of date. Words were living things.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous 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
“A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
I am the dictionary definition of feminist in that I believe women are equal to men. People sometimes use the word for… — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Fandango was around before the Internet. Fandango is a Spanish-American dance. It's a lively tempo dance. It's almost like the tango. That's… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
![“Fandango was around before the Internet. Fandango is a Spanish-American dance. It's a lively tempo dance. It's almost like the tango. That's what it says in the Merriam-Webster [dictionary]. The second entry is [defined as] 'tomfoolery.' That's what it says in the dictionary, that's what I go by…” quote by DJ Quik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e6/dj-quik-12180_bohemian_fandango-was-around-before-the-internet_1042639.jpg)
