quotes about Adjectives
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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 -
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
-- Alain Ducasse -
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 BachchanSource : Source: www.viva-press.com
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Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
-- Angela Davis -
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
-- Anne Carson -
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
-- Bill Gaede -
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...
-- 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 -
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
-- Brian Eno -
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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 -
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I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
-- Clare BaldingSource : "'I'm going to glam up': Clare Balding nervous ahead of prime time TV role" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. December 28, 2012.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
-- Daniel Goleman -
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.
-- David Levithan -
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I've got an adjective that just fits you.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
-- Florence Nightingale -
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
-- Frank Herbert -
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
-- Franz Kafka -
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
-- Gore Vidal -
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 -
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
-- Harper LeeSource : Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”
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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 TuckermanSource : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.79
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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 -
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
-- J. Anthony Lukas -
I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.
-- Jeanloup Sieff -
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My goal in life is to become an adjective,
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
-- Joseph Heller -
To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.
-- Julian Ruck -
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
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Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.
-- Laura Joplin -
But the adjectives change,†said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.
-- Margaret Atwood -
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
-- Mark Twain -
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
-- Mark Twain -
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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 -
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
-- Mira Sorvino -
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'
-- Moby -
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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 -
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 HardwickSource : "Omari Hardwick SPARKLE On-Set Interview". Interview with Heather Warburton, collider.com. May 24,2012.
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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 -
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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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 StevensSource : "Q&A With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Melanie Seibert, relevantmagazine.com. April 22, 2004.
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I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface.
-- Susan Griffin -
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.
-- Tracy Chevalier -
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First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
-- William Strunk, Jr.Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
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Bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend sends you reeling in a search for new adjectives to describe stupidity and thoughtlessness?
-- Dov Davidoff -
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I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.
-- Jay Presson Allen -
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 -
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