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Commentating, illustrating, description-giving Adjective expert. Analyzing, surmising, Musical, myth-seeking people of the universe... This is yours! -- T La Rock
Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy. -- William Safire
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. -- Gore Vidal
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
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence. -- Kenneth Koch
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. -- Ambrose Bierce
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. -- Ambrose Bierce
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. -- Brian Eno
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. -- Ambrose Bierce
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. -- Mira Sorvino
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' -- Moby
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. -- Ambrose Bierce
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.' -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever. -- Alice McDermott
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.' -- Martin Amis
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable. -- Adam Driver
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor. -- Matt Bomer
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.' -- Alison Brie
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' -- William Safire
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.' -- Rashida Jones
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold. -- Amy Poehler
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. -- Ambrose Bierce
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
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
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference. -- John Michael Higgins
I'm showbiz-fat. It's so funny, in all the reviews that I read, no one wants to use the word 'fat' as an adjective. So I have to deal with 'dimpled-kneed,' 'hefty,' 'plus-sized,' the most obscure words you can imagine. -- Marissa Jaret Winokur
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success. -- Steven Pinker
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. -- Karl Rove
Christian' makes a poor adjective -- Rob Bell
When you catch an adjective, kill it. -- Mark Twain
Good is a noun rather than an adjective. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I've got an adjective that just fits you. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
My goal in life is to become an adjective, -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective -- Rob Bell
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. -- Mark Twain
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. -- Ezra Pound
The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly. -- Julian Ruck
There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one. -- Joan Rivers
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. -- Kim Harrison
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. -- Mary Oliver
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. -- William S. Burroughs
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. -- Angela Carter
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. -- Alain Ducasse
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. -- J. Anthony Lukas
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers. -- Mark Twain
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. -- Bill Gaede
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. -- Voltaire
Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such. -- CrimethInc.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, -- William Strunk, Jr.
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. -- Gloria Steinem
Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular. -- Portia de Rossi
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. -- Daniel Goleman
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. -- John Green
I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler. -- Rachel Cohn
Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is. -- Mark Shields
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. -- Garry Kasparov
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other. -- Donald Hall
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
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. -- Mark Twain
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory. -- Martin Amis
Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. -- Guy de Maupassant
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'' -- Alison Brie
I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress. -- Jay Presson Allen
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
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader. -- William Zinsser
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple). -- Barry Mazur
We bask in the scent of cinnamon beforeMom 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

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