A Quote by Vivienne Westwood

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
English - Designer
Born: April 8, 1941

I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole".

Demetri Martin

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

William Safire

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

Gloria Estefan

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.

Kathleen Hanna

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

Erin McKean

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

Shaquille O'Neal

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Malachy McCourt

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?

George Carlin

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

Beverly Cleary

It's one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in the dictionary.

Alex Horne

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

Steven Weinberg

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

Ian Hacking

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.

Joe Wurzelbacher

If you look in a dictionary, the word 'Indianan' may appear. But the first task, the litmus test as to whether or not someone really is from Indiana or has spent any kind of considerable time in Indiana, is whether or not they use the word 'Indianan,' because no one in Indiana ever uses that term. We refer to ourselves as Hoosiers.

Todd Young

The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.