"Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry." — Wystan Hugh Auden

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• To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at… — Gregory Bateson
• In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
• I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this… — Alison Brie
• To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,… — Maya Angelou
• We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a… — Hal Borland
• The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman
• You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what… — Larry McMurtry
• Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give… — Guy de Maupassant
• You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.… — Mark Twain
• Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat… — Anton Chekhov

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