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• 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
• I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
• I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm
• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• The word impossible is not in my dictionary. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
• Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf."" — George Carlin
• For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to… — Remy de Gourmont
• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. — Elgin Baylor

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