Adjectives Quotes

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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly… — Carolyn Heilbrun
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 know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them. — Bipasha Basu
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
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line,… — Bill Gaede
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his… — Amitabh Bachchan
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
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I… — Susan Griffin
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham
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
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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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