Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roald Dahl

Eschew all those beastly adjectives...

Larry Beinfest

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.

Mary Oliver

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

Mira Sorvino

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

Lewis Carroll

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...

William White

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.

Larry Beinfest

During the interview process, the adjectives about Joe were consistent: prepared, smart, competitive, communicative. All the things we were looking for in a manager.

Thomas Sadoski

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.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Chris Paul

I was in the process of having a house built in English Turn,

Jack Quinn

Knowing the conditions in place today, ... I would think the community would want to examine any and all sports facilities built in recent years to see what arrangements were made.

Pat Perez

I would think that once two or three of them get built it's going to be tough for the others to come in.

Carl Anthony

Jacqueline Kennedy rented and then built homes in the horse country of Virginia where she would take these Thursday to Tuesday weekends and just come back to the White House two or three days during the week.

Mike Griffin

is very optimistic that the replacement for the shuttle will be built at Kennedy Space Center.

Mark House

I think it might be the only option. Compensate people fairly for what they have and make sure it's never built on again.

Lawrence Cohn

has built a good junk-bond business, but they have no equity capacity whatsoever -- and they've got to get it. They know they have to get it, the question is, 'When and how?'

Graham Hawkes

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Stan Rosenstein

In some cases, Medicare has incomplete or inaccurate data.

Laurence Fishburne

It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on the little screen doesn't mean he shouldn't be telling stories on the big screen.

Brian Roehrkasse

This is an inaccurate and misinformed interpretation of the administration's legal analysis.

Scott Ritter

There is a lot of inaccurate information and irresponsible speculation today, particularly from the U.S. government.

William S. Burroughs

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

William Strunk, Jr.

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

Joe Biden

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

Gertrude Stein

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Benjamin Whorf

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Sue Miller

I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.

Tony Rasmus

He's always pumped up. Sometimes, you have to pull the reins in.

Gary Waters

He should have pulled up. He was trying to get fouled, I know that's what he was thinking.

Lee Baca

He should have just let them pull him over and do their investigation and we would not have any of this.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

O.J. Mayo

I think we pulled together as a team.

Walter Dorman

I think it's the first time this season that we were rattled. It's unfortunate that we couldn't pull it out.

Juan Dixon

I was wrong, I was frustrated. I apologize. I just wanted to try to pull through and get us the win.

Ed DeChellis

He was guarded, he pulled it, and the senior made a big shot. That's what seniors do this time of year.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Richelle Mead

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Rick Riordan

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Woody Hayes

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Allen

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Robinson Jeffers

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.