Adjectives Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to…

— Guy de Maupassant

I want to verb your nouns adjectively.

— Nikhil Saluja

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective…

— Guy de Maupassant

Any noun can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

— Galileo Galilei

Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more…

— Erin McKean

I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.

— Stanley Cavell

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

— Mark Twain

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Any word that you say can catch anyone's feeling so be careful by choosing words

— Spido

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

— David Levithan