Day Quote by Erin McKean

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

— Erin McKean

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man…

— Criss Jami

I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me…

— Norman MacCaig

“I have written you a hundred letters, each one folded into the quiet between breaths, sealed with the weight of words that never learned…

— Mason Carter

On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had…

— Hilary McKay

“How to tell her in words, then, what he had learned himself by pain and grace? That only by forgiveness could she forget—and that…

— Diana Gabaldon

“After all, they were just words, and she had learned long ago that a man's actions displayed his truer nature more than the things…

— Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my…

— Gretchen Rubin

“I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.”

— William Giraldi

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

— Markus Zusak

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is…

— John Hodgman

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy…

— Alan Watts