As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.
I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and have published my ninth book "L'envers à l'endroit" last year. I am currently working on a dictionary of my favourite words.
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.
Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.
In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.
I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.
In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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.
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
Rap music. . . sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. When they were ten he asked her to marry him. When they were eleven he kissed her for the first time. . . For her sixteenth birthday he gave her an English dictionary and together they learned the words.
In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.