#dictionary

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled. ↗

— Will Cuppy

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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#before #comes #dictionary #only #place

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dictionary #i #old #put

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. ↗

— Val Kilmer

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I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ↗

— Eva Figes

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