Oxford English Dictionary Quotes

#1. How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?

Mike Tucker

#2. If that doesn't seem dominant enough, consider the fact that the word "google" is now an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary - as a verb.

Peter Thiel

#3. Ludicrous concepts ... like the whole idea of a war on terrorism. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

Terry Jones

#4. The Oxford English Dictionary is the greatest work of reference ever written, and it's largely the result of a Scotsman who left school at fourteen, and a criminally insane American.

Mark Forsyth

#5. Books provide a handy shorthand when Rory's mostly MIA father, Christopher, is first introduced to viewers. Christopher's offer to buy Rory the Compact Oxford English Dictionary she covets is sincere; his lack of ability to follow through on his good intentions is Christopher in a nutshell.

Jennifer Crusie

#6. The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules, more chaos than order, and enough new words created each day to keep the Oxford English Dictionary folks very, very busy.

George Takei

#7. My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.

Alan Bradley

#8. Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.

James Gleick

#9. In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.

Neal Stephenson

#10. An end to timidity - the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive. - on the making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

#11. I like power and I like to use it.

Sam Rayburn

#12. Oscar had a straightforward, dimpled, happy smile. It was one of the hundreds of great things about him.
And after that we were best friends. It had been as simple and inevitable as the striking of a match.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#13. To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Mencius

#14. That will give me time to hang out with Finley." His thin eyebrows waggled. "Show her what a real man can do with Legos.

Jenny B. Jones

#15. I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#16. One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

Arnold Palmer

#17. For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Marilynne Robinson

#18. I read your letters.

Cora Carmack

#19. Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

Arthur Schnitzler

#20. The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

Conan O'Brien

#21. Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.

D.J. MacHale