The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish… — John Stuart Mill 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
The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould 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
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 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
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives… — Isabel Allende 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
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any… — Carl Sandburg 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
