Dictionary Quotes

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

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.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

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.

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.