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

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

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

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

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

I have no limits. There is no 'No' in my dictionary; nothing is impossible for me.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

I would love to get into the dictionary as synonymous with great quality and service.

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

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

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

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

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

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

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

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

When you look at 'policy wonk' in the dictionary, the one picture you won't see is Donald Trump.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

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

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

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.

You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.

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

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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

Lzzy Hale could sing me the dictionary, and I would swoon. She is so amazingly talented, and her voice is absolutely delicious.

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an item girl.

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

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

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.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

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

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

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