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Life is our dictionary.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.


Eugene Delacroix
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The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.


Harry Cohn
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.


Gertrude Stein
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There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.


Erin McKean
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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
Everett Dirksen
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
George Chapman
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There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
Erin McKean
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
Gary Jennings
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
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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.
Paul Engle
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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
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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
Jules Verne