Merriam Webster Quotes

#1. DYNAM comes from the Greek dynamis, meaning "power." A dyne is a unit used in measuring force; an instrument that measures force is called a dynamometer. And when Alfred Nobel invented a powerful explosive in 1867, he named it dynamite.

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#2. Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

Sanjay Kumar

#3. As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.

Crystal Woods

#4. Everyone knew Eleanor was the smartest person in their class. So when she said sabotage the rest of them went scrambling for the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Judy Blume

#5. Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.

Abraham Cowley

#6. Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

Sarah Addison Allen

#7. When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

Morgan Neville

#8. I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Abbas Kiarostami

#9. Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

Moira Kelly

#10. Weird: of strange or extraordinary character

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#11. If I ever go bald, I'll kill myself.

Slash

#12. Beauty fades. But love? Love is a fire that needs sex to be burning strong. What good is a man who doesn't own a match to light your fire?" I

J.C. Reed

#13. Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Somestimes the stomach paralyzes the heart.

Victor Hugo

#14. It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

Wendell Phillips

#15. I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.

Avi Steinberg

#16. The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.

Jeanloup Sieff

#17. When being extremely judgmental about something, we are likely to narrow our eyes.

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#18. Can a girl find true love if she doesn't believe it exists?

Heather Hepler

#19. When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

Harold E. Varmus

#20. Me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.

David Levithan