Dictionary Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

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.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

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

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

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

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.