Adjectives Quotes

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.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

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.

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.

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

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.