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
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson 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
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful… — Donald Hall 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
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think it's important for you to understand that homosexuality is not a noun that describes a condition. It's an adjective that… — Dallin H. Oaks 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
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed… — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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