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What you mean to me is something out of the ordinary, cause even a whole of a dictionary won't be able to describe it! — Andy Flynn

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition. — Erin McKean

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

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

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition. — Erin McKean

GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary — Chet Williamson

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

She looks like she's holding in a dictionary of bad words or a nuclear war. — Jandy Nelson

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

Impossible," said he, "is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. — Napoleon Hill

Mistake is a single page in a part of Life ...
but Relation is a book of dictionary
So don't lose a full Book for a single page. — Rubeccapalm Rose

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting. — Loni Anderson

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. — Iain McGilchrist

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields

Because you're mine and sharing isn't part of my dictionary. — Priya Kanaparti

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

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today ... because there's no space for all of them. — Erin McKean

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words. — Maxine Kumin

Asexuality, auditions, and Ashlinn. The world was giving me reason to worship the A section of my dictionary. — Calista Lynne

Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. — Susanna Clarke

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Kahlil Gibran

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm

The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary. — Harry Cohn

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. — Honore De Balzac

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

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. — Zadie Smith

Sorry is a useless word. It should be thrown out of the dictionary. — Liane Shaw

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. — David Levithan

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

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman

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

My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary. — Alan Bradley

With you alongside,
Magic is,
less a dictionary word,
And more a,
part of life. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary) — Nicola Yoon

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. — Robert M. Hensel

I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.' — Gary Jennings

In the throes of passion, I threw out an I love you. Did I mean it? Does a dictionary mean what it says? — Jarod Kintz

On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents. — Patrick Modiano

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi

Impossible is in the dictionary of fools — Napoleon Bonaparte

Friday: The day after Thursday and before Saturday according to Rebecca Black. Also the most annoying day of the week now. — Aaron Peckham

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

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. — Jessica Valenti

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing. — Jane Hirshfield

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. — Nicole Krauss

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

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. — Val Kilmer

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. — Laurence Sterne

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

Poetry searches for music amidst the tumult of the dictionary. — Boris Pasternak

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

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

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. — Elgin Baylor

There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean. — Tom Holt

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary. — Marcel Duchamp

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary! — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge

If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family."
from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37 — Michael Flynn

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism. — Loretta Chase

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.' — Oscar Wilde

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

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary. — Everett Dirksen

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact. — David Foenkinos

Sorry & Thanks are the only two words in the dictionary of life wherein its presence connects two strangers, and its absence departs two loved ones. — Swati Jain

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"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

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them. — Jerzy Kosinski

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words? — Kristin Cashore

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

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

Jason straightened his shirt. "What's 'chauvinistic' mean?"
"It's in the dictionary next to a picture of your father," muttered
Kyle. — Kathleen Peacock

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. — Werner Herzog

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

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden. — Homer

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

Dictionary of Misunderstood Words — Milan Kundera

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis
obviously an unproven one
that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.
Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.
See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. — Carl Sandburg

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

Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary — Colin Dexter

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary. — Remy De Gourmont

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