“ The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ”
- Vidal Sassoon- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary. ”
- David Sedaris- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
- 597
“ There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Knew the Meaning Of. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
- 264
“ Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
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“ The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary. ”
- May V. Smith- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of marriages — where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
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“ Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ”
- Shaquille O’Neal- Copy
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“ My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center. ”
- Cyrus Vance- Copy
- 92
“ There are two kinds of success, or rather two kinds of ability displayed in the achievement of success. There is, first, the success either in big things or small things which comes to the man who has in him the natural power to do what no one else can do, and what no amount of training, no perseverance or will power, will enable any ordinary man to do… ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
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“ A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
- 250
“ I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express. ”
- Caldwell O’Keefe- Copy
- 155
“ The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ”
- Satchel Paige- Copy
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“ Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ”
- Martin H. Fischer- Copy
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“ A book that furnishes no quotations is no book — it is a plaything. ”
- Thomas Love Peacock- Copy
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“ If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ”
- David Lodge- Copy
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“ No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. ”
- Learned Hand- Copy
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