Top 42 Dictionary Definition Quotes
#1. I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
Jessica Valenti
#2. If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
Erin McKean
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.
David Foenkinos
#6. If you can't attract a woman, you are, by dictionary definition, sterile.
Mystery
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Check any dictionary in Hell and under the definition of attention whore was an image of her boss. If
Eve Langlais
#10. The only way to consciously deactivate a thought is to activate another. In other words, the only way to deliberately withdraw your attention from one thought is to give your attention to another.
Esther Hicks
#11. It wasn't much to most kids. I mean, I was basically getting recognized for being straight dogshit, ignoring that I was straight dogshit, and doing anything in my power just to maintain my dogshittiness. I think on Urban Dictionary that's the definition for insanity - or a Michael Bay film.
Eddie Huang
#12. 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
#13. According to the Cambridge dictionary, an alpha male is the most powerful and most successful in any group; every man wants to be the male being described in this definition.
Ryan King
#14. In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.
Kevin Huizenga
#15. 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
#16. Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Loni Anderson
#17. I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it ...
John Mortimer
#18. If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.
William Giraldi
#20. 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
#21. The CMO is expected to spend more on technology than the CIO by 2017.
Marc Benioff
#22. Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
Marc Andreesen
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.
Paola Antonelli
#27. Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Chip Kidd
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Elgin Baylor
#31. 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
#32. I want people to vote, I want them to pay attention. I want them to get up and go and vote and care about this country, inform themselves about the issues and I also want them to not vote for somebody just based on gender or race, based on qualification.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
#33. 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
#34. Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.
Robert D. Maurer
#35. There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.
Iyanla Vanzant
#36. You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
Howard G. Hendricks
#37. 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
#38. The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.
Konrad Adenauer
#39. If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
Val Kilmer
#40. 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
#41. The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
Sarah Dessen
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