First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the…

“When you overthink at the wrong moment, you cut yourself off from the wisdom of your emotions, which are much better at assessing actual…

— Jonah Lehrer

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— William Zinsser

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

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

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

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