#dictionary

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

— Elgin Baylor

#dictionary #greatness #jordan #look #michael

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....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

— Ammon Shea

#phone-book #telephone-directory #dating

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? ↗

— Deb Caletti

#charming #dictionary #liars #magic #magicians

abstraction, n. Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #love

Love me less, but love me for a long time ↗

— David Levithan

#love #romance #love

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

— Dave Barry

#breed #dictionary #fashion #models #more

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

#how #know #misspelled #were #word

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

— Khalil Gibran

#dash #deal #dictionary #joy #pain

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fun #humor #isabelle-lightwood #jace-wayland #humor