Quotes of: Dictionaries Keyword

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

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POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

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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.

Geoffrey Rush

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

Isabel Allende

Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.

Isidore Isou

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

Iain McGilchrist

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Gilbert Murray

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.

Jamaica Kincaid

I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.

Tom Wolfe

Gordon Gekko: This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence kid.

Wall Street

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.

Vince Lombardi

Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.

Alan King

Live your life the way you like instead of wasting time in search of perfection. In real world, there is nothing called perfection, its existence is limited to dictionary.

Abhinav Sakalle

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whethe...

A Dictionary of Thought

When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored pictures of gems and then forgot and shut the book ...

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

The Golden Lily