Quotes of: Dictionary Keyword

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.

Vince Lombardi

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.

Will Cuppy

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.

William Maxwell

{ } magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his discoveries runs to 12 volumes and is incomplete. I was one of the few men whom he admi...

A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Medieval and Modern Freethinkers

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

The Devil's Dictionary

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.

The Devil Tree

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

Bitterblue

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.

1984

The judge said he was going to throw the book at me. I hoped it was an ebook in the cloud, and not a heavy dictionary.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

The Lover's Dictionary

, . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

The Lover's Dictionary

, . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.

The Lover's Dictionary

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Lock and Key

If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

If you can't attract a woman, you are, by dictionary definition, sterile.

The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed

The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.

Philosophical Dictionary

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Philosophical Dictionary

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Public Opinion