Adjective Quotes

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

Moon Slightly Adjective Bigger Pizza Using Compared

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

You Before Whatever Way Adjective Some Russian Writer Put Limiting Feminist Any Going Whether Noun Jewish

Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work. Alistair Horne

Work History Battle Though Adjective Classic Longest Most Regularly Certainly

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Ambrose Bierce

Miserable Adjective Conspicuously Famous

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce

Positive Top Adjective Voice Mistaken

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

Wonderful Few Sense Aggressive Every Think Cold Adjective Kind Windy Stern Got Years Um Chicago Very Midwestern Lived

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

Day Woman Sometimes Positively Way Adjective Bad Entertaining About Take Stepped Feel Also Proud Coming Been Any Showbiz

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

Character Gay You Considered Adjective Tell Characters Never Getting Maybe Just Preference Asked Really Element Keep Why Play Thing

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

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. Mira Sorvino

Big Become Adjective Days Deal Big Deal Just Used Such A Big Deal Oscars

A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie. Shonda Rhimes

White Adjective Guy Front Movie

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

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless. Timothy Morton

Argument Adjective Someone Nevertheless Access Accurate May Just Thing

Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell. Rosie O'Donnell

Gay You Adjective Never Part Name Know Until Because Said Want Eternity Rosie Reason Now Why Assigned

When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I've always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts. Hilary Hahn

Myself Adjective Out Tried Record Record Companies More Tendency Simplify Instincts Always Than Listen Prodigy Companies Image Starting

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