#dictionary

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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

#dictionary #how #know #look #see

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#facts #literature #science

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

— Vince Lombardi

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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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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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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#comfortable #definition #dictionary #get #go

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

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And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. ↗

— David Jones

#exceptions #go #jail #knowing #law