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
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry 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
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse 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
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 am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer.… — Dieter Rams 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
I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy.… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou 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
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
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein… — Wendell Berry 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
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
