Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.
Alan King
Lzzy Hale could sing me the dictionary, and I would swoon. She is so amazingly talented, and her voice is absolutely delicious.
Alissa White-Gluz
The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.
Andrew Clements
I remember I told my mom that I was scared. I asked her, how will I talk to everyone in English? And my mom gave me a dictionary, where I learned one day at a time.
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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
Ashwin Sanghi
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'
Bernard Hopkins
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
Beverly Cleary
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham
Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.
Brian Celio
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg
Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
Carla Gugino
I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.
Carrie Preston
I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.
Charles Bradley
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles de Lint
My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.
Chesley Sullenberger
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
China Mieville
Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
Christian Slater
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
Craig Brown
It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.
Dan Levy
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Dave Barry
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.
I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming slang or something.
I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'
We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.
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.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.
There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
