Dictionary Quotes
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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Life is our dictionary.
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
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Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
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Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
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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.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want to read the entire dictionary, but I am afraid that someone is going to spoil the ending!
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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.
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I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
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If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...
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When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
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Lzzy Hale could sing me the dictionary, and I would swoon. She is so amazingly talented, and her voice is absolutely delicious.
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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.
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In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I'm looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.
