Quotes on Dictionary

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

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

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

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.

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

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

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

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

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

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

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

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

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

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.