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The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. — Mark Twain

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.) — Gerhard Richter

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor

My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries — Andre Nickatina

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts. — David Foenkinos

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... — Ammon Shea

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

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. — Samuel Johnson

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. — Steven Pinker

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses? — Norman MacCaig

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

boron - boro — World Translation Dictionaries

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. — Linus Pauling

The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary. — Marty Rubin

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. — Samuel Johnson

including their classification, — Collins Dictionaries

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring. — M.F.K. Fisher

Burn all the dictionaries and the things of the world will still be there. — Marty Rubin

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. — David Crystal

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. — Ben Schott

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center. — Sam Hamill

Nothing, not even dictionaries, can tell you what anything means," he said. "The reality of things is just sad, for the most part. — Tom Rachman

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. — Alfred North Whitehead

It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love. — Zadie Smith

This house is about two dictionaries away from caving in,' she'd say, 'and you're buying duplicates? — Jennifer E. Smith

One's freedom is one's love and one's love
is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary... — Duncan McNaughton

To make dictionaries is dull work. — Samuel Johnson

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English. — Isabel Allende

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

Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. — Ambrose Bierce

The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time. — Kurt Vonnegut