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
The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is… — Roy Stryker Copy Share Image
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
