Beyond Quote by Dan Levy

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

— Stephen Young

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

— Marcel Duchamp

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

— Dave Barry

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

— George Eliot

I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing…

— Kory Stamper

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

— Sorin Cerin

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can…

— Louis Menand

“Sometimes if you look a word up in the dictionary, you’ll see some definitions marked as obsolete. Natasha often wonders about this, how language…

— Nicola Yoon

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic…

— William Safire