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Dictionary Quotes by Dorothy Fields
- A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming…
- No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
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- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry
- I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore
- And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
- The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau
- For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the… — Remy de Gourmont
- Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld