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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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
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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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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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Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
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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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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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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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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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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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If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...
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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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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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I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
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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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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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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
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I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
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I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
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I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
