A Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

M. F. K. Fisher

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Always Fun Reassuring

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M. F. K. Fisher
American - Writer
July 3, 1908 - June 22, 1992

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

Kory Stamper

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

Kurt Browning

People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Ben Schott

People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun.

Kelly Clarkson

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

John Krasinski

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun.

James Lafferty

There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.

Karl Pilkington

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Jack Gould

There is a lack of humor in fashion. To me, it's always been the fun, cool industry to work in, and I always wanted people to be on my side and see how much fun we really have behind the scenes.

Chris Benz

Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's always fun to do the fight sequences and then to complete them, because some of them are quite complicated - with guns and so on - and there's always things that can go wrong. It's fun to shoot those things because we rehearse them very strenuously. It's fun to shoot them, and fun to know they're finished, that they're in the can so to speak.

Liam Neeson

My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.

Christie Hefner

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.