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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Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....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
boron - boro
— World Translation Dictionaries
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.
— Linus Pauling
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
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
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
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
