Quotes for All
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of Mary, prayer books, Scriptural resource books on Apologetics, Typology, concordances, bible dictionaries, bible encyclopedias and at least 40 bibles – both Catholic and Protestant editions in several different translations. Gail Buckley
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that ‘thousands’ has almost passed out of the dictionary. Everett Dirksen
The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. Eva Figes
If we don’t understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do … Read more
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. Eugene Delacroix
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest … Read more
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it. Eric Hoffer
All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order. Emma Darcy
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it. Elton Joe Kendall
Never use a verb other than \”said\” to carry dialogue… I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with \”she asseverated\” and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary. Elmore Leonard