Unexpectedly Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

What do you think is there that you cannot find here? — Alan Cohen

In his entry under the verb 'to antedate', Johnson quotes the essayist Jeremy Collier: 'By reading, a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past.' It is Johnson's engagement with the past and his revival of a diffuse pot-pourri of materials that make the Dictionary such an unexpectedly vibrant work. At — Henry Hitchings

Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit. — Buzz Aldrin

Many years ago there lived a man called Laurids Madsen who went up to heaven and came down again thanks to his boots. — Carsten Jensen

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade. — Cynthia Tucker

Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun. — Darrell Drake

Eroticize intelligence. — Douglas Coupland

I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care. — Gary Vaynerchuk

September 1973, that's where this novel begins. That's the entrance. We'll just hope there's an exit. If there isn't one, there wouldn't be any point in writing anything. — Haruki Murakami

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship. — Alexander Pope

With more time spent in their mother's presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie's own facile mental questioning and creative drive, paired with her physical rigidity, all the more oppositional, and, how they dance around serious subjects, laughable. — Justin Bog

I try always to intimate with the world ... with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private. — Gabriel Orozco

Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated. — Stanislaw Lem

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down. — Ben Harper

My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta. — Miranda Hart