Adjectives Quotes

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

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.

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 adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.