Dictionary Quotes

340 quotes by 286 authors

As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it… — Damien Hirst
There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary. — Jack Lynch
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. — Orrin Woodward
H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either.… — Bill Barich
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.'… — Daniele Vare
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries — Andre Nickatina
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Khalil Gibran
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. — Billy Graham
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary. — Everett Dirksen
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That… — Paul Engle
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. — Victor Hugo
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. — Samuel Johnson
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. — Val Kilmer
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it… — Alan King
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. — Charles de Lint
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. — Vince Lombardi
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish… — Vince Lombardi
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. — Imelda Marcos
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman

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