Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin McKean

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.

Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Iyanla Vanzant

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your ""Unabridged"" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.

Grant Heslov

That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

William Shakespeare

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

Boyd Palmer

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Maeve Binchy

I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.

Anne Lamott

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Cindy Sheehan

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

Bob Holthus

He wasn't taking any deep breaths when he came back. He's a dead-fit horse.

Cat Osterman

But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.

Mike Hargrove

Real shallow breaths in the ninth. But at least I was still breathing.

Jeff Taylor

We're a few good breaths away from being back at a lower unemployment rate,