91 Quotes About Dictionary
- Author Jack Lynch
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There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.
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- Author Alex Morritt
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In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.
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- Author W.G. Sebald
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Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.
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- Author Sandeep Sahajpal
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If being a Guru is Tapasya .... Do please get me an equally powerful word in any other language! Would you accept its English translation as Austerity as a meaning? There is no parallel of the word Tapasya
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- Author De philosopher DJ Kyos
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PCA- (Psychological Character Assassination) Is when someone changes from who they are and start living their lives, according to the standards of social media. Their minds create a new personality based on what they read on social media.They let social media people determine or decide on how they should live their lives.
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- Author Kory Stamper
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Words hurt, because they are one of the only socially accepted ways we can attack each other
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- Author Delia Owens
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Carefully she took the paper off to find a secondhand Webster's dictionary. "Oh, Tate, thank you.""Look inside," he said. Tucked in the P section was a pelican feather, forget-me-not blossoms pressed between two pages of the Fs, a dried mushroom under M. So many treasures were stashed among the pages, the book would not completely close.
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- Author Paul Theroux
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I looked up Ziyou, 'freedom, liberty,' and found a series of definitions, each with its own explanatory sentence. I copied the most interesting ones into my notebook.
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- Author Pip Williams
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So you and Dr Murray could make the words mean whatever you want them to mean, and we'll all have to use them that way forever?
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