Quotes by Adjectives 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 adjectives gay names A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime. Sufjan Stevens adjectives madness musician The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. Voltaire adjectives writing enemy Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. W. H. Auden adjectives poetry First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. W. Somerset Maugham adjectives cutting firsts Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy. William Safire adjectives elements unique The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place. William Strunk, Jr. nouns adjectives weak Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. William S. Burroughs nouns adjectives use Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." William Zinsser quiver adjectives space 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 adjectives detectives self Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons. William Zinsser lagoons adjectives soil «12345