Adjectives Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.

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

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

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

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

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.

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.