Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“ Agatha Christie n . A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit.” — VIZ Copy Share Image
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want… — Aaron Withers Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't… — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart.… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that… — Pseudonymous Bosch 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
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Who ever says words can't hurt you has never been hit in the face with a dictionary — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever said words can't hurt people, Never got hit in the face by a dictionary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
