#dictionary

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

— Martin H. Fischer

#facts #literature #science

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

— David Lodge

#company #dictionary #each #end #laid

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

— Julia Roberts

#after #comes #dictionary #just #republican

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dictionary #i #old #put

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

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

So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #rain #love

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last. ↗

— David Levithan

#lover-s-dictionary #tableau #love

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#expressed #opinion #order #truth

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

— George Chapman

#carry #clock #dictionary #earth #mere