Quotes About Dictionary

when you're writing programs you need to be able to name your identifiers well. And your prose has to be good. I'd feel lost without a good dictionary.

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

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

Achieve" comes before "Believe" in the dictionary, but the order is switched in real life.

She opened her Dictionary of Australian Slang. I'll just put on my sunnies, she said, slipping on sunglasses. I'll spit the dummy if you ankle biters take too long, but if you don't, she'll be apples! Speak English, please, Dan said. If you take too long, dude, you're toast. Got it.

Everyone knew Eleanor was the smartest person in their class. So when she said sabotage the rest of them went scrambling for the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.

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

I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.

I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?

I must confess, sweetheart, that I have been neglecting my wall of clues. My "useless gallimaufry," your mother called it on the one and only occasion she deigned to look at my work. I sagely agreed with her observation but of course I went running to the dictionary as soon as she was gone. Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...

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

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."

El diccionario Larousse termina ahí donde empieza el corazón"...

Le dictionnaire est parfois pudique. Comme lui-même effrayé par la douleur.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

What's another word for thesaurus?

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.