Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

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.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.