Words matter. These are the best Adjectives Quotes from famous people such as Bipasha Basu, Mark Twain, Natasha Rothwell, Simon Schama, June Diane Raphael, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way – sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell… I love them.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
As far as the adjectives that I lead with, I think a writer and a comedienne are first. I have never qualified my experience or gender or my race, although I know that’s a huge component on how that is used. But I think in order for me to do my job effectively, I have to really be the best at what it is I’m doing.
I did an audiobook for ‘Rough Crossings,’ which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.
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.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
As long as those adjectives used to describe me – charming, affable, punctual – don’t mean that I’m dull, then that’s fine. And I am polite – I was brought up to be that way.
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I’ve been privileged to meet and work with.
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.
I think ‘ambitious’ is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.
Frankly I’ve never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an ‘icon’, ‘superstar’, etc. I’ve always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.
There is the perception that the government’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis has certainly not included adjectives that are more commonly associated with the Singapore government, such as clarity and decisiveness.
You kind of get the same adjectives coming back over again and over again describing millennials. I think the national rhetoric around this generation is unfairly negative.
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.
I think my mistakes were kind of common – leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did. That’s what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that’s what I do – that’s what I mean to do.
A musician’s attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the ‘Modifier’s Madness.’ A lot of adjectives working overtime.
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you’ve probably chosen the wrong something.
I’ve really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.
