Dictionary Quotes

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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never… — David Levithan
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning,… — Alan Watts
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that… — Kurt Vonnegut
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life… — Nicole Krauss
I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled. — Robert A. Heinlein
I was asking about lust, wasnÊ¼t I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnÊ¼t love supposed to come before lust? It does in the… — Franny Billingsley
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you… — Harlan Ellison
Hey. Not sure whatâ€™s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and donâ€™t do anything stupid. Donâ€™t come after me-your better on your own. See… — James Patterson
Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a… — Bill Condon
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. — Carl Sandburg
For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed. — Joe Dunthorne
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And… — Barbara Kingsolver
Donâ€™t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie
In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant. — Robin Williams
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational. — Rachel Cohn
Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about… — Kristin Cashore
Dictionaries stop where the heart starts. — David Foenkinos
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I… — Richelle Mead

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