Dictionary Quotations

The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary,

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

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

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

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

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.

I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

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

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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.

We may debate political participation in the affairs of the world as we will, but we must participate it its business, and business, like science, knows no political boundaries and in its dictionary there is no such word as isolation.

The Oxford English Dictionary definition is a sexual deviant, especially a child molester.

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Last time I looked in the dictionary for 'evacuate' it doesn't mean sitting in bus under the arena. So I left. I went outside. I wasn't going to hang around and wait. I got in a little trouble. I'm sorry for any breach of protocol with security.

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

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.

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

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

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

There is not a clearly defined dictionary of street lingo.

I've never come into any season assuming anything. I know a lot of people got carried away, perhaps, about our potential. But potential is potential. You can look it up in the dictionary (and see) what it means. What we do on the field is what counts, and it takes all 11 guys. We're not there yet.

That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened.

There's not enough superlatives in the dictionary to describe what he's meant to Cecil Community College men's basketball. He's been a marked man his whole career here, but nothing phases him. He still performs at the highest level.

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,

GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your ""Unabridged"" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.

They keep fiddling with the language, and the general tone of the directive keeps getting a little less dovish. Being 'patient' sounds a little less like they're keeping rates on hold than a 'considerable period' -- though you'd need to study a dictionary closely to figure that out.

The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true.

The much vaunted male logic isnt logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

The dictionary definition of 'nonpartisan' says it's not controlled by any one political party.

The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

All his Celtic rogues, epic seers, and Anthony Quinn leanings were swept up in one grand old ham, ... Biographical Dictionary of Film.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.

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

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

It's the nature of all relationships, really: The straw that breaks the camel's back is rarely the most obvious thing, ... meets the dictionary definition of a crony.

That really went crazy. We had hundreds of phone calls from that one small ad. People said 'If you know something about lights, you may know something about dictionary stands, bookcases, and desks.' So we just listened to what people wanted and grew from that.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

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.

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

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

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

'Unbelievable' is the stupidest word in the dictionary.

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

The last time I checked the dictionary where it said evacuate, it didn't mean sit on a bus under the building. It means go outside.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Life is our dictionary.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

To make dictionaries is dull work.

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

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