First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them. — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
“I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.” — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“The question is, which is to be master? That's all. They've a temper, some of them. Particularly verbs. Oh, they're the proudest!… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.' — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
A teacher takes two long years to make a child learn the three degrees of adjectives but he doesn't know that life… — Lisha Copy Share Image
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity;… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer.… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
![“When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of…” quote by Granville Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/932/granville-sharp-81922_adjectives_when-the-copulative-kai-and-connects-two_949366.jpg)
