Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the…

“The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - he tried to…

— Harper Lee

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are…

— Gloria Steinem

I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad…

— Alison Brie

I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also…

— Bipasha Basu

Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be…

— Laura Joplin

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way…

— Mark Twain

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to…

— Guy de Maupassant

The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical…

— Theodor Herzl

Eschew all those beastly adjectives...

— Roald Dahl

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs…

— Julio Cortazar

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put…

— Garry Kasparov

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...…

— Barry Mazur

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

— William Zinsser

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is involved in…

— George Orwell