dictionary quotes

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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

Maya Angelou

Life is our dictionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Kanye West

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

Steven Wright

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

Steven Wright

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

Steven Wright

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

Vivienne Westwood