Dictionary Quotes - Page 2

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

To make dictionaries is dull work.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

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

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our dictionary is where you go to learn anything about anything. That really set the tone in North America for how people responded to dictionaries.

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 what a thing is.

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.