I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“They wanted to be nouns, but they were, and eternally must be, mere adjectives.” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Moby Copy Share Image
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them. — John Collison 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 have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for… — Kathy Sierra Copy Share Image
The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as… — Frank Luntz 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
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to… — Melina Marchetta 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
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened… — Demetri Martin 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
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
Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as… — David Cross 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
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way. — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular. — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives. — Margaret Atwood 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