Adjective Quotes

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A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being… — John Stuart Mill
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those… — Gore Vidal
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 change a phrase.… — Gloria Steinem
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory. — Martin Amis
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. — Mira Sorvino
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.… — Ezra Pound
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable… — John Michael Higgins
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the… — Criss Jami
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Moby
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used… — Steven Pinker
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful… — Amy Poehler
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly… — Karl Rove
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.' — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three… — Jose Saramago
Christian' makes a poor adjective — Rob Bell
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and… — Marcel Duchamp
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it… — Joseph Brodsky

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