1.
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.
Ingvar Kamprad
2.
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Julia Roberts
3.
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
Zadie Smith
4.
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
Samuel Johnson
5.
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!
Jimmy Durante
6.
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
Alexander Theroux
7.
My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.
Les Dawson
9.
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
Giacomo Leopardi
10.
[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.
Iyanla Vanzant
12.
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
William Safire
14.
I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.
Kapil Dev
15.
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
Vivienne Westwood
18.
In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi
19.
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
Joss Whedon
20.
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
Orrin Woodward
21.
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.
Jack Black
23.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
24.
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Dave Barry
25.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo
27.
In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.
Robin Williams
28.
Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
William Cranch Bond
31.
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
Voltaire
33.
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
34.
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
Anatole France
35.
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
Daniel Handler
36.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
Kathleen Norris
37.
Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our dictionary is where you go to learn anything about anything. That really set the tone in North America for how people responded to dictionaries.
Kory Stamper
38.
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
Anthony Burgess
39.
The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.
Rudy Giuliani
40.
The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.
Harry Cohn
41.
I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.
Kory Stamper
43.
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.
Rachel Cohn
44.
To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.
Mark Strand
45.
For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.
Fabrice Muamba
46.
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.
Mary Norris
48.
There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.
Jack Lynch
49.
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
Ambrose Bierce