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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Work, Before

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible, Word, Found

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

Success, Work, Hard

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

Poetry, Pain, Joy

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

Real, Last, Means

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

Thought, Reading, Poem

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

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
John Wooden

Love, Hate, Important

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible, Word

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good, Evil, Words

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

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

Success, Struggle, Remember

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg

Time, Help, Read

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
Henry Rollins

Ideas, Concerned, Impact

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew Barrymore

Powerful, Words, Old

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Julia Roberts

After, Republican, Above

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

Enough, Big, Word

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Dave Barry

Fashion, Models, Breed

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

Eyes, Soul, Windows

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein

Poetry, Seen, Rhyming

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau

Greatest, Order, Literature

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

Before, Word, Trouble

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
Vivienne Westwood

Time, Word, Delighted

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
Imelda Marcos

Truth, Mean, Used

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

Love, Words, Find

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
Shaquille O'Neal

Real, Why, Means

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

Great, Mind, Memory

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
Rashida Jones

Life, Pet, Integrity

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
Everett Dirksen

Almost, Becoming, Thousands

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

Great, Wisdom, Memory

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