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
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the… — Criss Jami 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
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern,… — Amy Poehler 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
Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned… — Rosie O'Donnell 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
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
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is… — Joseph Brodsky 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
I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of… — Carolyn Heilbrun 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
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said… — Karl Rove 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
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
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
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
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“When you’re young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
Bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend sends you reeling in a search for new adjectives to describe stupidity and thoughtlessness? — Dov Davidoff 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
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov 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
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
“A world without adjectives would still have the sun rising and setting, the flowers blooming, the trees bearing fruits, the birds singing,… — AA Patawaran Copy Share Image
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
