Dictionary Quotes

340 quotes by 289 authors

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new… — Alain de Botton
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Websterâ€™s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes… — John C. Maxwell
Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know… — Brandon Mull
I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there. — Wendy Mass
Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow? — Jennifer Flackett
Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!) — Maria Semple
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible... — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of… — Anthony Marra
I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door,… — Janet Frame
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. — Zadie Smith
Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. — Nicole Krauss
Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd… — Richelle Mead
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped… — Mark Twain
Life is our dictionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. — W. Somerset Maugham
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency. — Paul Johnson
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary. — Erin McKean
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and… — Erin McKean
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition. — Erin McKean
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted… — Craig Brown

Who Wrote These Dictionary Quotes

289 authors contributed a total of 340 Dictionary Quotes, led by these top contributors: