Dictionary Quotes

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Life is our dictionary.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

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

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.