A Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Come Decent Government History Human Human History Noun Seldom Together

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Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Born: May 16, 1965

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Donald Hall

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

William S. Burroughs

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

Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

Julia Quinn

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

Alan Stern

Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

Gustave Flaubert

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

Deborah Tannen

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

Voltaire

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Robert M. Pirsig

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

Rob Bell

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

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.