“My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.” PeopleReasonStoriesBeautifulNamesParentPagesChinaMatesPlatesRhymeDictionaryHippieRhymingFlippedSlangBeautiful WordsCockneys Author:China Mieville
“If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do not appreciate the way a metaphor works we will never comprehend the meaning of the text.” IfsWayMatterUsePagesAppreciateMetaphorSentencesGreekDictionaryHebrewEtymology Author:Eugene H. Peterson
“Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.” StudyReaderPagesOrdinaryCrossesBoundsFatsExplanationVolumeHuntsDictionaryCommentary Author:D. A. Carson
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.” PeopleFactsDifferencesFictionPagesConcernedFifteenDictionary Author:Charles de Lint
“I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry” KnowsWritingTryingMindSometimesPagesSorryDictionary Book:The Tender Bar: A Memoir Source: The Tender Bar: A Memoir