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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.
Chelsea Clinton

Millennials are often depicted as indifferent, aloof, detached and self-centered. However, nothing could be further from the truth of the Millennials I have had the chance to encounter and collaborate with.
Authors on Adjectives Quotes: Mark Twain William Zinsser Gore Vidal Bill Gaede David Levithan Rob Bell Mehmet Murat Ildan Jeanloup Sieff Portia de Rossi Irving Howe Rita Mae Brown Alain Ducasse Lewis Carroll Laura Joplin William Safire Mortimer Adler Guy de Maupassant Angela Davis Mary McCarthy Jeffrey Eugenides Ezra Pound Harper Lee Roald Dahl Brian Eno Chelsea Clinton Henry Theodore Tuckerman Florence Nightingale William Strunk, Jr. Melina Marchetta Demetri Martin Franz Kafka Rachel Held Evans Artie Shaw
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
Franz Kafka

Excruciatingly sorrowful beyond redemption
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When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.
Nizar Qabbani

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

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

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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.
Amitabh Bachchan

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A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.
Sufjan Stevens

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'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.
Artie Shaw

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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.
Marcel Duchamp

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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
Henry James

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

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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
Alfred de Musset

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Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
Harper Lee

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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton Fadiman

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

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The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous, in the handling of prepositions, those modest little connectives that hold the parts of a phrase or a sentence together. They are the joints of any language, what make it, literally, articulate.
Mary McCarthy

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

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

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Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.
Rosie O'Donnell

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

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

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Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American.
Demetri Martin

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

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First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

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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

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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.
Adam Driver

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

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All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.
Joseph Devlin

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

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

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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

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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap

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

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

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

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When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.
P. G. Wodehouse

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

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

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Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
W. H. Auden

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Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
Irving Howe

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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

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

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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.
Rachel Held Evans

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

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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.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

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

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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
Omari Hardwick