71 Dictionary Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary. Marcel Duchamp

Words Value Something Like Greater Than Dictionary Meaning Meaning Of Certain Explosion

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. Max Beerbohm

Me Soul Eyes Windows Remind Dictionary Quotations Need

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything. Mukesh Ambani

You Ambition Realistic Think Our Everything Entrepreneurs Dictionary Realise Should

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another. Nicolas Winding Refn

Me People Word Every Everything Point Another Been Dictionary

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. Philippe Petit

Faith Doubt Dictionary

Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced. Robin DiAngelo

Racism Result Consistently Definition Definitions Hierarchies Mainstream Does How Reduce Dictionary Personal Explain Little Racial Prejudice Actions

Impossibility is a dictionary word. Sri Chinmoy

Word Impossibility Dictionary

In all my years in 'Countdown's' Dictionary Corner, the subject most guaranteed to rankle with our viewers is the presence of Americanisms in the dictionary. Susie Dent

Corner Our Most Years Subject Dictionary Viewers Presence Guaranteed

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use. Susie Dent

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I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words are being used. Susie Dent

Work You Words Boring Databases How Sounds Dictionary Current Oxford Being Which Really Used Show Being Used Fascinating Actually

I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?' Tracee Ellis Ross

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Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary. Tucker Carlson

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. Val Kilmer

News You Definition TV Look Up Dictionary Watch

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know. Walter Becker

Music Book Everything Harvard About Only Piano Know Knowing Learned Dictionary Wanted Interested Theory Chords

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. apl.de.ap

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