(31 quotes found)
“I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.”
Joey Santiago
“It's useful, it's basic and it's just my opinion, but I think everyone should have a Webster's Dictionary. I like reading dictionaries just for the words. We have the Third International Edition, which is good, but if you have the Second International, you've got a gold mine.”
Karen Schaffer
“We eventually found out that it was not a Bible, but a dictionary, because we happen to know somebody who works in the Pentagon who actually went and saw it himself.”
David Mikkelson
“Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.”
Samuel Johnson
“When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.”
Marvin Emerson
“Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.”
Lenny Bruce
“LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.”
“Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.”
David Lodge
“Other names might have been attached to it by various people, but for now what's in the dictionary, which is our reference, is Augustine Island and Augustine Volcano.”
Chris Waythomas
“I'm gonna tell you a really great advice. If you can't say how you feel.. If you don't know how it goes.. If you're in a loss for words...Find a dictionary.”
Immee Lirkie
