Dictionary Definition Of Quotes

#1. The debate is whether the war is legal. It has brought pain, misery and desperation to hundreds of thousands of people. Does that sound legal to you? To me it sounds like the dictionary definition of the legal profession.

Frankie Boyle

#2. Throw in "never read books" and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal.

Ann Coulter

#3. Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.

David Foenkinos

#4. I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

Jessica Valenti

#5. 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.

Erin McKean

#6. Don't let a dictionary define your life. Whatever friend means to you, that is the correct definition. Whatever joy and peace means to you, that is the correct definition.

Sydney Wilhelmy

#7. Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Paradise, where i grew up, wasn't paradise either. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist.
Caleb to himself

Simone Elkeles

#8. I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

William Giraldi

#9. Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Loni Anderson

#10. If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

John Hodgman

#11. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#12. 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

#13. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.

Paula Scher

#14. If you can't attract a woman, you are, by dictionary definition, sterile.

Mystery

#15. Check any dictionary in Hell and under the definition of attention whore was an image of her boss. If

Eve Langlais

#16. The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Sarah Dessen

#17. The dictionary defines pride as "pleasure or satisfaction in one's work or achievement." According to that definition a person needs to do something before you can be proud of them. You could not be proud of them simply for who they are. I'm not sure I know what pride in another person feels like.

Francisco X Stork

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

Val Kilmer

#19. No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life
-Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen

#20. Perry: Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
Harry: A picture of me?
Perry: No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!

Shane Black

#21. If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

#22. Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."
Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"
"I bet you'll tell me."
" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "
You're a riot.

Brandon Mull

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

Elgin Baylor

#24. Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Anthony Marra