Top 139 Adjectives And Adverbs Quotes & Sayings

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.

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.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

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.

Adjectives are the curse of America.

But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

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

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

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.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

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

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?

Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.

Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

Bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend sends you reeling in a search for new adjectives to describe stupidity and thoughtlessness?

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

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

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

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'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

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.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of modern everyday speech, which, whether we like it or not, includes four-letter words used as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives. But, God, is it difficult to learn.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more... morely.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

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