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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
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
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
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
Val Kilmer
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
Imelda Marcos
A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.
John Henry Newman
Life is our dictionary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Italo Calvino
Ludicrous concepts...like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?
Terry Jones
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
John Cage
DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This my dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Ambrose Bierce
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
Emil Cioran
That does it, I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.
Cassandra Clare
I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.
Mukesh Ambani
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth-or in heaven-do I mean by "integral"? The dictionary meaning is fairly simple: "comprehensive, balanced, inclusive, essential for completeness." Short definition, tall order.
Ken Wilber
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
John Newton
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
William Faulkner
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.
Frances Wright
Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary.
Andy Partridge
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