Active Quote by Lewis Carroll

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

— Robert A. Heinlein

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it…

— Bible

I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.

— James William Middleton

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see…

— Will Cuppy

I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in…

— Rumi

“What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision clarified, some…

— Gregory Maguire

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

— Peter De Vries

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

— William Safire

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

— Louise Erdrich

“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous,…

— Robert Pirosh

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

— Susie Dent

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