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Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. — Brian Eno

You don't want to get in the habit of overusing the word "fuck" as an adjective. You'll miss the vast variety of its uses. — Nora Roberts

Good is a noun rather than an adjective. — Robert M. Pirsig

I'm a t-terrible h-human."
"No," Piper whispered. "If you want that statement to be true, then you need to remove the adjective. — Jewel E. Ann

These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively. — Libba Bray

I've got an adjective that just fits you. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such. — CrimethInc.

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy. — William Safire

Christian' makes a poor adjective — Rob Bell

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

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

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun. — Sheryl Sandberg

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman

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

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. — Angela Carter

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

Easy' is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. — Nancy Linn-Desmond

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. — Gloria Steinem

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.' — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Free scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant. — Ayn Rand

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede

Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective. — Elena Ferrante

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas

The blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective kafkaesque — Franz Kafka

There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one. — Joan Rivers

She's never met an adjective or adverb she didn't like. — Loretta Chase

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Moby

I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.' — Alison Brie

There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun. — Jane Hirshfield

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. — Mark Twain

The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it's a duty preceding been an honour. — Ammar Moussa

You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective, I said, as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house to the backyard. — Kevin Hearne

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective. — Rob Bell

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

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. — Artie Shaw

Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective. — Carolyn Miles

The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Finished' is not an adjective that describes a book that has been read to the point you think you cannot read it anymore. Books never run out. — Ella

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

Gorgeous?" Ronan tried again. "Transcendent? Kestrel, the right adjective hasn't been invented to describe you. — Marie Rutkoski

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. — Voltaire

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal

Success is not an adjective for a life. A person can only be successful at part of something not in all something. — Todd Stocker

I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative. — Ron Brackin

Wuthering being a significant, provincial adjective descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. — Emily Bronte

She chose the adjective deliberately. Handsome or sexy conveyed surface appeal. Beautiful addressed the whole package, inside and out. — Joey W. Hill

When you catch an adjective, kill it. — Mark Twain

Unforgettable" is an adjective that one use with regard to certain people, places, or incidents on the way to "forgotten. — Alex Stein

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'. — Ambrose Bierce

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. — Mark Twain

Moral," said Vale."That's an interesting adjective to apply to 'genocide'. — Dan Wells

The way he looks at me makes me feel ... I try to search for an adjective to follow up that thought, but I can't find one. He just makes me feel. — Colleen Hoover

Evil is an adjective. It is an adjective used to describe those actions of man (and their effects) that are contrary to the nature of God. — N.D. Wilson

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. — Mary Oliver

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly. — Julian Ruck

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. — Daniel Goleman

At least Clarissa knows I'm benign. But that is not an adjective one wants to throw around about one's spouse: This is my husband. He's benign. — Steve Martin

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison

As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun. — Gloria Steinem

Frumious. Anything that inspires its own adjective is a force to be feared. — A.G. Howard

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other. — Donald Hall

Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb. — David Levithan

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

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

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity. — John Biggins