Language Quote by Andy Rooney

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick

“But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...”

— Mark Haddon

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

— Augusto Roa Bastos

“It's like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first”

— Aaron F Withers

“Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.”

— Toba Beta

“You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first”

— Aaron Withers

“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”

— Eddie Cantor

“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often.”

— China Miéville

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Everyone uses their own dictionary.”

— Robert Jacoby