the adjectives QUOTES

1 " The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used. "

2 " Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit. "

― William Giraldi

3 " If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases. "

― Willa Cather , The Professor's House

4 " Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you. "

― Vidya Kumar

5 " Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

6 " I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them. "

― , An Accomplished Woman

7 " A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. "

― Mark Twain