Adjectives Quotes
137 quotes by 116 authors
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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
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes…
— Padma Lakshmi
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The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
— Dick Schaap
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
— Mark Twain
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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
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Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
— Harper Lee
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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
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Christian' makes a poor adjective
— Rob Bell
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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
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Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
— Lois Lowry
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I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors…
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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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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Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced…
— Wendell Berry
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
— Alfred de Musset
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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
— Mark Twain
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