Dictionary Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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