"When I need to know the meaning of……" — William Safire
"When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary."
More Dictionary Quotes
- 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
- The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau
- 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