Dictionary Quotes

340 quotes by 289 authors

I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how to bring more… — M. J. Ryan
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. — Linus Pauling
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is… — Adolf Hitler
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way… — Jamaica Kincaid
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how… — Will Cuppy
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice… — Beverly Cleary
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at… — Gottfried Leibniz
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to… — Aimee Mann
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. — David Crystal
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing. — Mark Strand
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white… — Steven Pinker
Do you know what â€˜Sputnikâ€™ means in Russian? â€˜Travelling companionâ€™. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence… — Haruki Murakami
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting differenceâ€™s of accepting, while I… — W. Eugene Smith
The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly… — Peter Farb
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want… — Elwyn Brooks White
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses… — Ambrose Bierce
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not… — Thomas Jefferson
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?… — George Carlin
To make dictionaries is dull work. — Samuel Johnson
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to… — William Stafford

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