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• I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Character, Mean, Clothes

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• 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

  Witty, Stress, Mean

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• All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

  Joseph Devlin

  Class, Verbs, Nouns

  Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.5, Full Moon Publications

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• The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Government, Together, Nouns

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• When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Biblical, Weapons, Economics

  Rachel Held Evans (2014). “Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions”, p.91, Zondervan

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• My goal in life is to become an adjective.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Goal, Life Is, Life Goal

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.57, Macmillan

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• It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Believe, Gay, Males

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• To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.

  Julian Ruck

  Faith, Use, Belief

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• Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Mark, Best Sellers

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.12, Henry Holt and Company

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• Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

  Paul Valery

  Powerful, Advertising, Most Powerful

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

  Alain Ducasse

  Ducks, Cooking, Verbs

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• Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Normal, Homosexual

  "Sex Is Politics". Essay by Gore Vidal (1979), published in his book "The Second American Revolution and Other Essays", 1982.

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• Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Simple, Two

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• Christian' makes a poor adjective

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Poor

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• Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Found, Distasteful

  Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Hands, One Day, Letters

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Blood, Important, Trying

  "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter V: "An Approach to Style", 1918.

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• Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Men, Mustache, Suffering

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• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mean, Use

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• His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

  Frank Herbert

  Voice, Lows, Unspeakable

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.212, Penguin

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• When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Lying, Men, Use

  Nizar Qabbani, “Language”

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• But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.

  Julio Cortazar

  Memories, Teaching, Smell

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.143, Everyman's Library

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• Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared. “Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.” “I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Sweet, Smart

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Order, Giving, Wish

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