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Dictionary Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by…
- 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…
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- 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
- 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
- Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my… — Toni Morrison
- If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. — Dave Barry
- There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry
- 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