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
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant… — 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
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
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of… — Leo Strauss 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
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that… — William Beebe 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
I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in,… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I… — John Waters 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
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
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a… — Padma Lakshmi 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
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. — Daniel Goleman 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
