Quotes About Dictionary

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

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

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

There is no more irritating fellow than the one who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or freedom, by quoting from the dictionary. Lexicographers may be respected as authorities on word usage, but they are not the ultimate founts of wisdom.

Anyone who fails to consult the explanatory notes and the list of abbreviations at the beginning of a dictionary has only himself to blame if he is not able to use it well.

Una vez busqué en un diccionario el término hipocondríaco y le saqué una copia. -No sé si lo sabías, pero tu biografía viene en el Diccionario de la Real Academia le anuncié. Echó un vistazo a la fotocopia y me lanzó una mirada de alcayata. -Prueba a buscar en la i de idiota y verás que no soy el único famoso replicó JF.

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!'

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

Let me see if I have this straight. You killed your children and piloted their undead bodies? Yes. Does that shock you? No. You're a psychopath What does that mean? I got up and brought her a dictionary. She read the definition. That sums it up well.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language, not set its style.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

Little dictionary sprite, sunshine vendor, and girl to be loved.

They've really begun the war, he said to himself. And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!

There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean.

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

Sakaki and Osaka lying on towels at the beach) ... Osaka: You know them Hemmorrhoids... Sakaki: ...Eh? =-O Osaka: Some folks call 'em "Hemorrhoids", but others call 'em "Roids". Why does the one not have an "H" in it? Which one's right? Sakaki: ...... Osaka: Would it be under "H" or "R" in the dictionary? Sakaki: ...I don't know. =/

We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.

no matter what the dictionary says, in my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

But no matter what the dictionary says, in my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train. Given that, I've had three and a half problems. A dead guy in my bed, substance abuse, and manic-depression.

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.

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

The only time you find success before work is in the dictionary.

V sucked at sympathy. What was that saying? It was just a word between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary.