#dictionary

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. ↗

— William Safire

#i #know #look #meaning #meaning of

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dictionary #poetry #rhyming #seen #things

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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Mistake is a single page in a part of Life .... but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose a full Book for a single page. ↗

— Rubeccapalm Rose

#mistakes #life

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ↗

— George Chapman

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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

#certain #dictionary #find #focused #how

dumbfounded, adj. And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we’re together. That someone like me could findsomeone like you — it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turnof events. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #quote #the-lover-s-dictionary #jealousy

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #motion #sparks #love

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#almost #becoming #billions #dictionary #dollars

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

— Dorothy Fields

#give #happen #must #out #rhyming