First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“They wanted to be nouns, but they were, and eternally must be, mere adjectives.” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 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
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them. — John Collison 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 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
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
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
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for… — Kathy Sierra Copy Share Image
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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
When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp 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
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
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes 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
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