Dictionary Quotes
340 quotes by 286 authors
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The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would…
— Lewis Carroll
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But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and…
— Julio Cortazar
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
— Guy de Maupassant
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He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up…
— Mary E. Pearson
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We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately…
— P. C. Cast
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I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak…
— James Patterson
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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before…
— Alexander Theroux
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me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to…
— David Levithan
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that…
— Ira Gershwin
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Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.†“I have one,†she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half…
— Julia Quinn
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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
— Ellen Hopkins
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There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great…
— Elie Wiesel
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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to…
— Alice Sebold
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If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then…
— Deb Caletti
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What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Oooh, that was fun." "That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you…
— Cassandra Clare
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One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right…
— Philip Pullman
Who Wrote These Dictionary Quotes
286 authors contributed a total of 340 Dictionary Quotes, led by these top contributors: