Dictionary Quote by Gertrude Stein

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

— Bruce Springsteen

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

— Dorothy Fields

I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with…

— Orson F. Whitney

For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions…

— Victor Hugo

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

— Edmund Blunden

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

— Tom Robbins

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…

— Dorothy Fields

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China,…

— China Mieville

My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly…

— China Mieville

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the…

— Isaac Hayes