Adjectives Quote by Kenneth Koch

“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang…

— Virginia Woolf

“She squinted against the sunlight on taxi hoods and bus windows, heard the rushing now of air and of taxis, wheezing buses, and underneath…

— Alice McDermott

“The summer ended. Day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended. The noises in the street began to change, diminish, voices became…

— James Baldwin

“They walked to her flat through the rain and they might have been anywhere—Berlin, London, any town where paving stones turn to lakes of…

— John le Carré

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

— Donald Hall

“In the morning and in the evening and at night in his dreams, this street was filled with constantly bustling traffic, which seen from…

— Franz Kafka

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

“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human…

— Virginia Woolf

“The storm had caused the power to go out; the streets were buried in a liquid darkness speckled here and there with the light…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,…

— Diane Ackerman

The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in…

— Virginia Lee Burton

“The soft humidity of the evening, so pleasant to walk about in earlier, had turned to rain. The strolling tourists had melted away. One…

— Daphne du Maurier