“I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs... — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.” — Vidya Kumar 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
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell 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
“Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she… — Thomm Quackenbush 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
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
It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point,… — Bill Gaede 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
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal,… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more… — Tracy Chevalier 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
“The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on… — Eminem 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
Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always… — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy. — William Safire Copy Share Image
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible… — Rachel Held Evans 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
I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount… — Jay Presson Allen Copy Share Image
Commentating, illustrating, description-giving Adjective expert. Analyzing, surmising, Musical, myth-seeking people of the universe... This is yours! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective,… — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Adjectives were formed by adding the suffix -ful to the noun-verb, and adverbs by adding -wise. Thus, for example, speedful meant “rapid”… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
