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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. Dave Barry
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. David Lodge
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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. David Robinson
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There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary. Erin McKean
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There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them. Erin McKean
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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. Erin McKean
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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. Erin McKean
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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. Eva Figes
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary. Fabrice Muamba
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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. Geraldine McCaughrean
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The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary. Harry Cohn
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I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up 'brutal' in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it's under the guise of wanting to change the actor's habit - wanting to break bad habits and replace them with brand-new ones you can use for the rest of your career. Henry Winkler
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. Iain McGilchrist
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. Ian Hacking
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. Imelda Marcos
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book. Jamaica Kincaid
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Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever. James Gleick
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It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know). James Gleick
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In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it. Joe Wurzelbacher
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. John Henry Newman
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If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous. John Hodgman
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Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. John Lithgow
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I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular. Jon Scieszka
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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Jules Verne
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I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from. Kerry King
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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting. Loni Anderson
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