I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions. — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the… — Emma Darcy Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind… — William James Copy Share Image
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,… — Mervyn Peake 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
Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still… — Jennifer Donnelly 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
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Lead Your Life Similar To A Dictionary, Providing Meaning To Everyone Who Refers You. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
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