Unabridged Dictionary Quotes

#1. In standard American English, the word with the most gradations of meaning is probably run. The Random House unabridged dictionary offers one hundred and seventy-eight options, beginning with "to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk" and ending with "melted or liquefied." In

Stephen King

#2. There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

Jack Lynch

#3. In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

Thomas Szasz

#4. When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

Elizabeth Lesser

#6. Whilst it may be our species greatest achievement, responsible for every technological advance we have or ever will make, science is also poop and sex and boogers.

Katie McKissick

#7. Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

Milton H. Erickson

#8. Eleven-year-old paranoia was powerful. Eleven-year-old relief was euphoric.

Markus Zusak

#9. My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

Sharon Shinn

#10. France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

Gustave Courbet