Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow? — Jennifer Flackett Copy Share Image
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
“Jaimie loved the dictionary even more than the television because it is the one book that contains all others.” — Robert Chazz Chute Copy Share Image
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole.… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“About 35-40% of the time, a player wants to create a word ending in a specific letter. This, however, is not the… — Richard D. Ekstrom Copy Share Image
We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. — Elgin Baylor Copy Share Image
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word. — Barry Davies Copy Share Image
“We have control on every word of the dictionary except for the 2:; "Death" and "Heart” — Nikita Tak Copy Share Image
