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Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
— A.B. Guthrie Jr.
I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.
— Jeanloup Sieff
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
— Gloria Steinem
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."
— William Zinsser
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
— Mary Oliver
Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.
— William Giraldi
I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.
— Amor Towles
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
— W. Somerset Maugham
His voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking
— George R R Martin
Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.
— Rachel Martin
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
— Mark Twain
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
— Frank Herbert
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Adjectives are the curse of America.
— Rita Mae Brown
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
— Franz Kafka
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
— Roger Rosenblatt
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.
— Mark Twain
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
— Alfred De Musset
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
— Angela Carter
I spot a small cleft on his chin that should be awarded with a whole new set of definitions and adjectives.
— A.A. Gupte
But the adjectives change," said Jimmy. "Nothing's worse than last year's adjectives.
— Margaret Atwood
Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life.
— Raheel Farooq
The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used.
— Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can.
— Anton Chekhov
Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.
— Laurie Lee
Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.
— Mark Forsyth
I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell ... I love them.
— Bipasha Basu
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
— W. H. Auden
Prepositions are painful, articles are arduous, adjectives are wild overachievements.
— Isaac Marion
Eschew all those beastly adjectives ...
— Roald Dahl
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
— Mark Twain
Would you like to hear of my first sight of the Germans? I'll use adjectives to make it more lively. I usually don't.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter.
— Tyne O'Connell
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
— Dick Schaap
It had been wonderful and magical and all the adjectives that people use to describe "making love.
— Laurelin Paige
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
— Florence Nightingale
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.
— Elinor Glyn
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
— Donald Hall
The pale sword came shivering through the air
— George R R Martin