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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

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Eugene Delacroix

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
Dorothy Fields

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

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

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

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

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
Eva Figes

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

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

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

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

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David Lodge

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

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

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