Dictionary Quotes

340 quotes by 289 authors

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really… — John Prine
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. — Eugene Delacroix
The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession.… — Ammon Hennacy
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get… — James Webb Young
Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one… — Simon Winchester
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or… — Rashida Jones
There is no English equivalent for the French word flÃ¢neur. Cassell's dictionary defines flÃ¢neur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be… — Frances Wright
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire… — Joseph Epstein
The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but… — Dan Kieran
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops. — Andy Samberg
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. — Robert M. Hensel
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it. — Elton Joe Kendall
"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based… — Russell Simmons
All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put themÂ in the right order. — Emma Darcy
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. — Gilbert Murray
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in… — George Bernard Shaw
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary — Dave Kellett
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. — John Ralston Saul
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. — Eva Figes

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