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1.
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.
Ingvar Kamprad

Authors on Dictionary Quotes: Kory Stamper Anatole France Samuel Johnson David Foenkinos Giacomo Leopardi Sri Chinmoy Mignon McLaughlin Kathleen Hanna Victor Hugo Will Cuppy Joss Whedon Kapil Dev Ambrose Bierce Gertrude Stein Robin Williams Paul Ricoeur Kathleen Norris Ralph Waldo Emerson William Safire Julia Roberts Orrin Woodward Les Dawson Rudy Giuliani Eugene Delacroix Harry Cohn William Cranch Bond Jonathan Safran Foer Jack Black Anthony Burgess Mark Strand Fabrice Muamba Daniel Handler Iyanla Vanzant
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

8.
Life is our dictionary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

11.
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Eugene Delacroix

12.
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
William Safire

13.
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

16.
You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
W. Edwards Deming

17.
The dictionary contains no metaphors.
Paul Ricoeur

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

22.
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
Anatole France

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

26.
Impossibility is a dictionary word.
Sri Chinmoy

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

29.
To make dictionaries is dull work.
Samuel Johnson

30.
Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.
David Foenkinos

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
Voltaire

32.
I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.
Matthew McConaughey

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

42.
When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.
Jonathan Safran Foer

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

47.
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

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

50.
Gratitude is a useless word.
You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld