Quotes about adjectives
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Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull weak
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.
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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.
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Tim Salmon You run out of adjectives to describe him because he does things you've never seen before.
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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.
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Brian Eno Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
adjectives cliche prose
Dick Schaap Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
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Angela Davis Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
adjectives three needs
Roger Rosenblatt If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
adjectives fit
F. Scott Fitzgerald I've got an adjective that just fits you.
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One needs only to look at the adjectives used by the media to describe chemicals to understand why the general public is frightened: toxic, killer, lethal, deadly,
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Gregg Williams My own parents wish maybe I would use different adjectives at times. But there's also kind of a feeling that I have to get in the gutter because some of them have lived in the gutter. But I don't take pride in that.
adjectives care incredibly
I was incredibly upset, disappointed, dismayed, any other adjectives that you could care to add.
adjectives homosexual persons
Gore Vidal 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.
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Gore Vidal To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
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David Cross If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.
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William Gibson The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.
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Tyler has been one of the biggest promoters of Seth. It almost brings a tear to my eye just talking about it. He's been like a big brother to him. I don't have enough adjectives to describe how great Tyler has been this year.
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June Diane Raphael I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day.
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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.
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Ian Anderson If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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Isabel Allende A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.
adjectives-and-adverbs fifty cents
Mary Oliver Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.
adjectives oscars used
Mira Sorvino The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
adjectives verbs through-the-looking-glass
Lewis Carroll They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...
adjectives beastly
Roald Dahl Eschew all those beastly adjectives...