A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
George Chapman

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles de Lint

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
John Ralston Saul

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.
Brian Celio

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
Geoffrey Rush

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

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo

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

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

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Dave Barry

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Elgin Baylor

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