Quotes Tagged "dictionary"

breathtaking, adj. Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.

Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade.

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Words of our hearts have their own dictionary

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

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

Boulder should be next to the word 'community' in the dictionary.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Impossibility is a dictionary word.