Adjectives Quotes

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Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing