Dictionary Quotes
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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Elgin Baylor
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You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.
Antony Hegarty
Antony and the Johnsons
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo
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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
Honore de Balzac
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On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.
William Lewis Safir
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The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.
Joe Perry
Aerosmith
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The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.
Ana Castillo
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I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
Andy Samberg
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I want to read the entire dictionary, but I am afraid that someone is going to spoil the ending!
Jen Selinsky
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When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
William Lewis Safir
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According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh and often petty criticism." Perhaps in human relationships both of these meanings could apply. Almost all men will respond to sincere praise and rebel at harsh and cutting criticisms.
Marvin J. Ashton
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If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...
Aziz Ansari
