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Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis
— Thomas Harris
Check any dictionary in Hell and under the definition of attention whore was an image of her boss. If
— Eve Langlais
My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.
— Les Dawson
The word 'impossible' ain't in my dictionary.
— Jessica Maria Tuccelli
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
— Remy De Gourmont
Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.
— Jacob Zuma
Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.
— Alastair Reynolds
GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
— Chet Williamson
To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
— Victor Hugo
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
— Loni Anderson
You can look up keening in the dictionary, but you don't know what it means until you hear somebody having their heart ripped out.
— Bryn Greenwood
Get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591
— Mark Z. Danielewski
No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life-Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key — Sarah Dessen
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?
— Russell M. Nelson
A good dictionary can only help.
— Mary Norris
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.
— Kristin Cashore
The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.
— Jerzy Kosinski
She had a rear end as big as an open dictionary and a bad attitude.
— Elizabeth McCracken
She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Breathtaking, adj.Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. — David Levithan
I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.
— Billy Sunday
Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.
— David Foenkinos
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
— Martin H. Fischer
A long silence descended. Long enough to walk to the end of a long, narrow room, look up something in a dictionary, and walk back.
— Haruki Murakami
Home means always here...
— Will Advise
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
— Philippe Petit
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
— Ambrose Bierce
Duden Dictionary Meaning #2 Verzeihung - Forgiveness: to stop feeling anger, animosity, or resentment. — Markus Zusak
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.
— Rachel Cohn
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
— Eugene Delacroix
If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family."from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37 — Michael Flynn
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
— Charles De Lint
When I see a dictionary on my desk I feel like I'm looking at some strange dog leaving a twisty piece of poop on our lawn out back.
— Haruki Murakami
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
— Everett Dirksen
In a modern dictionary, the noun "melancholy" has two definitions. First, it means "thoughtful or gentle sadness.
— Joshua Wolf Shenk
How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?
— Mike Tucker
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[ ... ]Are both of you ... ?""Manscaped?" Dante smiled. "I'm fucking Italian; I been mowing my lawn since I was thirteen. — Damon Suede
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
— Ambrose Bierce
If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?
— Kristin Cashore
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.
— Joe Wurzelbacher
I once typed 'vagina dentata' into dictionary and it asked me, 'Did you mean giant anteater?
— Juliet Cook
You're like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life
— Shannon Dermott
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A single act is worth a thousand thoughts
— Michael Oduah
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.
— Kathleen Hanna
Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
— Shaquille O'Neal
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
— John Henry Newman
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
— Robert M. Hensel
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
— Jessica Valenti
Impossibility is a dictionary word.
— Sri Chinmoy
She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to.
— Terry Pratchett
I want to read the entire dictionary, but I am afraid that someone is going to spoil the ending!
— Jen Selinsky
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
— John Ralston Saul
You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everyone uses their own dictionary.
— Robert Jacoby
I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss.
— Paula M. Hunter
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
— Saffron Burrows
There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean.
— Tom Holt
The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.
— Adrian Rogers
I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
— Ellen Hopkins
Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
— William Cranch Bond
Impossible is in the dictionary of fools
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
— Alexander Theroux
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
— Vivienne Westwood
Satan is so deceptive! He likes to borrow Christian vocabulary, but he does not use the Christian dictionary!
— Warren W. Wiersbe
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!
— Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau
There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.
— Jack Lynch
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
— David Lodge
The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.
— Augusto Roa Bastos
Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary
— Colin Dexter
You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
— W. Edwards Deming
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
— Steven Wright
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
— John Ralston Saul
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
— Malachy McCourt
