Book quotes Quote by Mwanandeke Kindembo

“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

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

— Augusto Roa Bastos

“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”

— Eddie Cantor

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

— Andy Rooney

“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.”

— Ken Scott

“A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible,"…

— Napoleon Hill

“A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope, wrought over…

— Shion Miura

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

— Mark Haddon

“Words are words, but more is heard when more is learned.”

— A.G. Porter

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura

“Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Everyone uses their own dictionary.”

— Robert Jacoby