There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans , I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. . . in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. . . To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.
Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?
Rap music. . . sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.