Adjective Quotes

87 quotes by 70 authors

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective — Rob Bell
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in… — Artie Shaw
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'designâ€™. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I… — Dieter Rams
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or… — Rashida Jones
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had… — Oscar Wilde
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has… — Ambrose Bierce
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, — William Strunk, Jr.
When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office,… — Granville Sharp
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining,… — Bipasha Basu
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. — Ezra Pound
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. — Brian Eno
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify… — Guy de Maupassant
When you catch an adjective, kill it. — Mark Twain
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 adjective is most… — Adam Driver
My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you… — Antonio Banderas
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg

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