#dictionary

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

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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

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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from. ↗

— Kerry King

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Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

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