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Quotes About Adjective

The most diverse beings are made substantive by the flame. Only an adjective is necessary to make them more specific. A cursory reader will perhaps see no more here than stylistic play. But if he participates in the inflammatory intuition of a poetic philosopher, he will understand that the flame is the source for a living creature. Life is a fire.
~ Gaston Bachelard
We bask in the scent of cinnamon before Mom puts a scone her plate. 'His name is Rich,' she says. I select a scone too. 'I like a man with an adjective for a name.
~ Kelly Bingham
In software development, "perfect" is a verb, not an adjective. There is no perfect process. There is no perfect design. There are no perfect stories. You can, however, perfect your process, your design, and your stories.
~ Kent Beck
El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.
~ Vicente Huidobro
As the initiator of a learned tradition of discourse on Renaissance art, Vasari's vocabulary is in some respects limited. For example, he employs the adjective 'beautiful' over and over again, much to the despair of all his translators.
~ Giorgio Vasari
As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.
~ Gloria Steinem
If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?
~ Terri Guillemets
Mandelbrot created the word (noun and adjective, English and French) fractal.
~ James Gleick
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.
~ Bipasha Basu
Stanhope delayed a moment behind Miss Fox to add: "The substantive, of course, governs the adjective; not the other way round." "The substantive?" Pauline asked blankly. "Good. It contains terror, not terror good. I'm keeping you. Good-bye, Periel," and he was gone.
~ Charles Williams
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
~ Tina Fey
PLENTIETH. Franklin P. Adams's adjective of indefinite older age, as in: "He is about to celebrate his plentieth birthday.
~ Paul Dickson
A name is more than just a noun, verb, or adjective. Its your life, your legacy, your journey, sacrifices, and everything youve worked hard for every day of your life as and adolescent, young adult and adult.
~ Unknown
Bossy was the adjective most often trotted out by the lads whenever Sue's name came up in conversation (strange how women in positions of authority so often acquire the sobriquet bossy, while a man holding the same rank is somehow invested with qualities of leadership).
~ Jeffrey Archer
I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
~ David Levithan
In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.
~ David Levithan
As Dickinson's Misery suggests in a number of ways, when lyric becomes an adjective, it evokes a theory of personal expression and abstraction that was highly problematic for Dickinson, but that has come to be highly valued in retrospect by modernism.
~ Unknown
It must be pretty cool being a lawyer, she said in awe. Cool was not an adjective Jake would use. He was forced to admit to himself that it had been a long time since he viewed his profession as something other than tedious.
~ John Grisham
Sempre fui um autor correndo atrás da metáfora, das mais desvairadas metáforas. O adjetivo é minha tara estilística.
~ Nelson Rodrigues