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 Werner Herzog
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I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.
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- Author Samuel Johnson
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To make dictionaries is dull work.
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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 Joey Santiago
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I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.
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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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