91 Quotes About Dictionary

  • Author Grant Heslov
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    That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened.

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  • Author Erin McKean
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    Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

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

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  • Author Jeri Ryan
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    I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

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  • Author Melanie Rawn
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    I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

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  • Author Mark Strand
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    To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

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