My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.'… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the… — Anton Chekhov 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
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
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to… — Chelsea Clinton 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
I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly… — Thomas Sadoski 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
... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
