Top Dictionary Quotes
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Eugene Delacroix
I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.
Jeri Ryan
Val Kilmer 
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Kerry King 
Billy Graham 
Max Beerbohm 
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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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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
Dorothy Fields
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
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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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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Julia Roberts
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
Will Cuppy
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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
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright
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Victor HugoNapoleon BonaparteKahlil GibranGertrude SteinSteven WrightDave BarryCarl SandburgJean CocteauVince LombardiBilly GrahamNathaniel HawthorneLoni AndersonMax BeerbohmJeri RyanJohn Henry Newman
Julia RobertsBrian CelioKerry KingCharles de LintMartin H. FischerVal KilmerDorothy FieldsGeorge ChapmanJohn Ralston SaulEverett DirksenWill CuppySarah Ban BreathnachEugene DelacroixDavid JonesDavid Lodge
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