Adjectives Quotes - Page 8

• Repaso el texto para asegurarme de que no he utilizado palabras rebuscadas. Si veo que se ha colado algún adjetivo rebuscado, lo sustituyo por palabras pequeñas como "bonito" y "grande". Me gustan estas palabras desde que me dijeron que no las usara en clase de inglés en el colegio. Después, compruebo que las frases sean cortas para que la gente no se confunda y acorto todos los capítulos para que no se aburran. Hoy en día no puedo leer nada complicado, mi capacidad de atención es demasiado corta. Seguro que a todo el mundo le pasa lo mismo.

  Martin Millar

  Confuso, Agradable, Escuela

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• I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.

  Mary Oliver

  Book, Night, Doors

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.15, Penguin

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• Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

  Garry Kaspárov

  Women, Titles, Events

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.77, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

  Alfred de Musset

  Abuse, Romanticism

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• Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Expression, Land

  Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound (2009). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.9, Fordham Univ Press

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• When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person.

  Granville Sharp

  Two, Office, Quality

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• At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Vacation, Car

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• Sé que tengo buen aspecto. Me encantan los adjetivos habituales que me llegan: sexy, sexy, morena, bomba de pipa.

  Bipasha Basu

  Sexy, Bombshells, Hot

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• Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

  Criss Jami

  People, Genius, Nouns

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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• anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Nurse, Racism, Black

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• The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Believe, Writing

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

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• 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 entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

  Bipasha Basu

  Proud, Way, Sometimes

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• A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

  Bill Gaede

  Differences, Individual, Adverbs

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• A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

  Bill Gaede

  Location, Infinity, Nouns

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• I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

  Carl Sandburg

  Verbs, Nouns, Study

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Interesting, Sublime

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

  Donald Hall

  Together, Verbs, Nouns

  DONALD HALL (1973). “WRITING WELL”

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• 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.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Writing, Giving, Verbs

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• Los adjetivos son la barriga de la poesía.

  W. H. Auden

  Poesía

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• Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Thinking, Lds

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• Mi español se está volviendo un poco flojo. A veces voy a España y después de estar un rato hablando con mis viejos... empiezas a cambiar el verbo por el adjetivo, por ejemplo, que es una cosa común entre el español y el inglés. A veces lo cambio pero después de un par de días allí, boom, estoy de vuelta.

  Antonio Banderas

  Change, Couple, Talking

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• I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

  Dieter Rams

  Names, Voice, Apples

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

  Rachel Martin

  Team, Games, Play

  "U.S. Women's Soccer Team Prepares For World Cup". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 17, 2015.

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• Cuando un científico distinguido pero de edad avanzada afirma que algo es posible, es casi seguro que tiene razón. Cuando afirma que algo es imposible, es muy probable que se equivoque. Quizá haya que definir el adjetivo "anciano". En física, matemáticas y astronáutica significa más de treinta años; en las demás disciplinas, la decadencia senil se pospone a veces hasta los cuarenta. Hay, por supuesto, gloriosas excepciones; pero como sabe cualquier investigador recién salido de la universidad, los científicos de más de cincuenta años no sirven más que para reuniones de consejo de administración, ¡y deben mantenerse a toda costa fuera del laboratorio!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Medio, Universitario, Anciano

  Perfiles del futuro cap. 2 (1962).

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• My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

  Rashida Jones

  Integrity, Goal, Pet

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