Adjectives Quote by William S. Burroughs Download Open image “Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.” — William S. Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adjectives Humans Nature of man Nouns Use
“The word 'human' refers to something more than the bodily form or even the rational mind. It refers also to that community of blood… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.' — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there. — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Stark cold terror seized her as a rotten feeling crept through her very soul. “Question, Mr. Death?” “Aye, lass?” “Am I the only human… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs 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
