Browsing Quote by Eddie Cantor

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...”

— Mark Haddon

“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.”

— Andy Rooney

“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often.”

— China Miéville

“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“You know when you look at a word on the page, I mean really look at it, it suddenly loses all meaning?”

— Jaden Wilkes

“I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.”

— K.D. Green

“You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first”

— Aaron Withers

“I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a…

— Charles Bukowski

“The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.”

— Rebecca James

“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that matter most…

— André Aciman