Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
When you look at 'policy wonk' in the dictionary, the one picture you won't see is Donald Trump.
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.
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.
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.
I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writers: Caitlin Moran, India Knight, Lauren Laverne, Grace Dent, Deborah Orr, Marina Hyde, Suzanne Moore. I look at that list of names and think, 'Here comes the fun - fun that knows its way around a dictionary.'
I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.
Boulder should be next to the word 'community' in the dictionary.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.
