Quotes about diction
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If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition. Erin McKean
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Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'
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Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. Djimon Hounsou
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. Dave Barry
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The Oxford English Dictionary definition is a sexual deviant, especially a child molester. Chris Quinn
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We may debate political participation in the affairs of the world as we will, but we must participate it its business, and business, like science, knows no political boundaries and in its dictionary there is no such word as isolation.
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I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance. Imelda Marcos
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Last time I looked in the dictionary for 'evacuate' it doesn't mean sitting in bus under the arena. So I left. I went outside. I wasn't going to hang around and wait. I got in a little trouble. I'm sorry for any breach of protocol with security. Shane Battier
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I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time. Harold Bloom
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Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.
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Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. Carl Sandburg
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When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English. Keyshawn Johnson
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My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate. China Mieville
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I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is. French Montana
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I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. Werner Herzog
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Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
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I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me. Tom Wolfe
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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it. Alexander Theroux
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That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened. Grant Heslov
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I've never come into any season assuming anything. I know a lot of people got carried away, perhaps, about our potential. But potential is potential. You can look it up in the dictionary (and see) what it means. What we do on the field is what counts, and it takes all 11 guys. We're not there yet. Kirk Ferentz
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The much vaunted male logic isnt logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. Eva Figes
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The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true.
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When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.
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There's not enough superlatives in the dictionary to describe what he's meant to Cecil Community College men's basketball. He's been a marked man his whole career here, but nothing phases him. He still performs at the highest level.
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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
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That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.
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Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
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In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know. Daniel Handler
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PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. Anatole France
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. Ambrose Bierce
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A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive. Anthony Burgess