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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. Saffron Burrows

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Dorothy Fields

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Khalil Gibran

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

Julia Roberts

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Elgin Baylor

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Eva Figes

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

Chesley Sullenberger

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Jeri Ryan

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Loni Anderson

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

Dave Barry

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

Val Kilmer

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

Shaquille O'Neal

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Eugene Delacroix

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

Dave Barry

I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.

Labrinth

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Everett Dirksen

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.

Brian Celio

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

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

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

Beverly Cleary

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Steven Wright

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Victor Hugo

Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Gertrude Stein

'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.

Victor LaValle

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

French Montana

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.

Kerry King

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.

Craig Brown

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

Steven Pinker

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

Erin McKean

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?'

Tracee Ellis Ross

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

Les Dawson

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

John Hodgman

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Paul Johnson