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nouns adjectives use
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. William S. Burroughs
nouns adjectives weak
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, William Strunk, Jr.
nouns adjectives verbs
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. Kim Harrison
nouns earth verbs
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe. R. Buckminster Fuller
nouns three-things verbs
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 Joe Biden
nouns ifs objects
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. Janis Joplin
nouns disease adjectives
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. Florence Nightingale
nouns
There are a lot of other things besides nouns. Gertrude Stein
nouns
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. Benjamin Whorf
adjectives beastly
Eschew all those beastly adjectives... Roald Dahl
adjectives carry joe knew looking man process
The adjectives about Joe were consistent. Prepared. Smart. Competitive. Communicative, ... We knew as we went through the process that he was the right man for this job. He had the characteristics we were looking for to carry us through '06 and beyond. We're very happy. Larry Beinfest
adjectives-and-adverbs fifty cents
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. Mary Oliver
adjectives oscars used
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. Mira Sorvino
adjectives verbs through-the-looking-glass
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs... Lewis Carroll
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull weak
Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace. William White
adjectives interview joe looking
During the interview process, the adjectives about Joe were consistent: prepared, smart, competitive, communicative. All the things we were looking for in a manager.
adjectives certain designed looking news paint people picture repeatedly sort trying
I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way. Thomas Sadoski
adjectives populism populist
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. Brian Eno
verbs earth
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. Lynn Margulis
verbs adverbs ifs
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. Kingsley Amis
verbs nouns
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb Jimmy Carter
verbs nouns adjectives
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
verbs want surrender
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
verbs incompleteness
Consider incompleteness as a verb. Anne Carson
verbs understand-me difficulty
I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me. Thalia
verbs fundamentals want
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be. Evelyn Underhill
verbs
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. Franz Liszt