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My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.
— Les Dawson
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
— Andy Samberg
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
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
It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.
— Eugene H. Peterson
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
— Iain McGilchrist
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
A good dictionary can only help.
— Mary Norris
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
— George Chapman
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
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
She had a rear end as big as an open dictionary and a bad attitude.
— Elizabeth McCracken
When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Shortcoming shouldn't be in Longman's vocabulary.
— Natalya Vorobyova
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
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.
— Patrick Modiano
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
How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?
— Mike Tucker
If you're looking for sympathy, it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." "Sure
— Shannon Stacey
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
— Honore De Balzac
If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family."from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37 — Michael Flynn
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.
— Michael Arditti
If you are looking for sympathy, it's betweem shit and syphillis in the dictionary.
— Shannon Stacey
One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary... — Duncan McNaughton
Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. -Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary) — Nicola Yoon
If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary. — Toba Beta
I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry
— J.R. Moehringer
READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary "Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167 — Rodman Philbrick
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible ...
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.
— Werner Herzog
BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary "Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161 — Rodman Philbrick
Jason straightened his shirt. "What's 'chauvinistic' mean?""It's in the dictionary next to a picture of your father," muttered
Kyle. — Kathleen Peacock
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
