Dict Quotes & Sayings

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places. — Kevin Kwan

Tasting is an act of pleasure, and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast. — Muriel Barbery

ADJUTOR (ADJU'TOR) n.s.[adjutor, Lat.] A helper.Dict. ADJUTORY (ADJU'TORY) adj.[adjutorius, Lat.] That which helps.Dict. — Samuel Johnson

AGALAXY (A'GALAXY) n.s.[Gr.] Want of milk.Dict. — Samuel Johnson

ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict. — Samuel Johnson

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. — Henry Rollins

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see — Marcel Duchamp

I dreamed of being able to share my thoughts and feelings and hopes without thinking they were going to make fun of me and think I was silly, and I have that. — Rebecca St. James

APHETA (APHE'TA) n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict. — Samuel Johnson

People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus. — Marcel Proust

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity. — Walter Russell Bowie

I am very curious about life. I only hope it stays curious about me. — Mark Everett Stone

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again. — Lee Majors

ABDITIVE (A'BDITIVE) adj.[from abdo, to hide.] That which has the power or quality of hiding.Dict. — Samuel Johnson

Apollo had said he knew what this kind of love was capable of. And I finally understood why Paris had risked his country and his blood for Helen. Selfish, yes, but I understood. I would burn the world if that meant Alex would be safe. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. — Brian Eno

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid ... you should always be aiming for a top half finish — Ian Holloway

AFFIDATION (AFFIDA'TION) AFFIDATURE (AFFIDA'TURE) n.s.[from affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict. — Samuel Johnson

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life. — Rebecca Lobo