Adjectives Quotes

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One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning… — Marston Bates
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
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay… — William Beebe
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work… — Chelsea Clinton
Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling… — Kathy Sierra
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
She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic… — Michael Chabon
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
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent… — Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Eschew all those beastly adjectives... — Roald Dahl
When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list -… — Omari Hardwick
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get… — Rebecca Solnit
Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays. — Rachel Martin
I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way. — Clare Balding

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