#dictionary

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... ↗

— Ammon Shea

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

— Dave Barry

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The word impossible is not in my dictionary. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#impossible #word

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

— Steven Wright

#about #dictionary #everything #i #poem

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ↗

— Steven Wright

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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. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Julia Roberts

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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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