Adjectives Quote by J. Anthony Lukas Download Open image “If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.” — J. Anthony Lukas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adjectives Ifs Needs Nouns Strong Verbs Writing
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant,… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes. — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom,… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is involved in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
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… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
