Adjectives Quotes - Page 6

• The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?

  Tom Coburn

  Children, America, Adjectives And Adverbs

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. 9 de enero de 2006.

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• ... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Mother, Mind, Majority

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). "Belleza por cenizas, por Albion Fellows Bacon; con numerosas ilustraciones".

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• Oí decir a un estudiante californiano en Heidelberg, en uno de sus estados de ánimo más tranquilos, que prefería rechazar dos copas a un adjetivo alemán.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Two, Students

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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• I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

  Jay Presson Allen

  Self, One Day, Actresses

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• La gente sólo tiene dos o tres adjetivos para describir a las personas que salen a la luz pública. Y eso está bien. Siempre que esos adjetivos no sean desastre, desastre, terrible.

  Taylor Swift

  Eye, Train Wrecks, Two

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.

  Tom Johnson

  Writing, Order, Purple

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you like a run-of-the-mill actress. They'll assign "smart" to your word bank, your adjective bank.

  Rashida Jones

  Correr, Inteligente, Pensar

  "Keeping Up with Rashida Jones". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 2, 2012.

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

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Museums, Cracks, Verbs

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• Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

  Donald Hall

  Hurt, Addiction, Important

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• Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."

  Bill Moyers

  Jesus, Kings, Memorable

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• I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Lying, People, Kind

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• The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Views, Quality, Certain

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

  Ezra Pound

  Stress, Objectivity, Expression

  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

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• The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for anynoun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective.

  J. L. Austin

  Philosophy, Expression, Quality

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

  William Safire

  Unique, Elements, Flavor

  William Safire (1981). “On language”

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• The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Passive Voice, Nouns, Verbs

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson, Penny Lee (2012). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.113, MIT Press

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

  Moby

  Eclectic Style, Would Be, Phrases

  Interview With Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. June 2, 1999.

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• I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

  Kim Harrison

  Verbs, Nouns

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• Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

  Portia de Rossi

  Effort, Wish, Normal

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Creer, Escribir, Carácter

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Expression, Voice

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• You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

  David Levithan

  Doors, Nouns, Scream

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, Giving, Wish

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• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title — whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.

  Matt Bomer

  Jobs, Moving, Gay

  "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Mark Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Nouns, Poor

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.84, Harper Collins

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