#dictionary

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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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. ↗

— Elgin Baylor

#dictionary #greatness #jordan #look #michael

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... ↗

— Ammon Shea

#phone-book #telephone-directory #dating

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? ↗

— Deb Caletti

#charming #dictionary #liars #magic #magicians

breathtaking, adj. Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. ↗

— David Levithan

#dictionary #kiss #love #love

Love me less, but love me for a long time ↗

— David Levithan

#love #romance #love

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

The word impossible is not in my dictionary. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#impossible #word

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary. ↗

— John Wooden

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dash #deal #dictionary #joy #pain