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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.


Eugene Delacroix
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
Everett Dirksen
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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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
Ferran Adria
I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
Jack Nicholson
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
Vikram Seth
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Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it.
Mikko Hypponen
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Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
Peter Diamandis
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I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.


Terry McAuliffe
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I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.
Chuck Inglish
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
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Life is our dictionary.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
Larry Hagman
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Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.


Jerrold Nadler
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You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.
Jane Siberry
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Tags: Truth Up Them
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
Dylan Thomas
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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