Adjectives Quotes - Page 3

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 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.

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Adjectives are the curse of America.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.