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would-be flattery vain
Charlotte Bronte flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
would-be overwhelmed numb
Alanis Morissette That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.
would-be colony
Dave Barry What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".
would-be assuming narcissism
Bryan Fuller It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.
would-be action amazed
L. Ron Hubbard You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.
would-be motivational-business workforce
Bill Rancic Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
would-be ifs indescribable
Edward Gorey Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
would-be want chains
Arthur Rubinstein I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.
adjectives anger angry couple describe lewis mild naturally people taken
David Cross If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.
adjectives bear brought history hundred imagine learn learned past school
William Gibson The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.
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Doug Evans Tyler has been one of the biggest promoters of Seth. It almost brings a tear to my eye just talking about it. He's been like a big brother to him. I don't have enough adjectives to describe how great Tyler has been this year.
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull tight weak
William Strunk Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull weak
William White Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.
adjectives populism populist
Brian Eno Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
adjectives chemicals describe general media needs public understand
Robert Hendrickson One needs only to look at the adjectives used by the media to describe chemicals to understand why the general public is frightened: toxic, killer, lethal, deadly,
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Thomas Sadoski I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.
adjectives feeling gutter lived maybe parents pride wish
Gregg Williams My own parents wish maybe I would use different adjectives at times. But there's also kind of a feeling that I have to get in the gutter because some of them have lived in the gutter. But I don't take pride in that.
phrases fit educated
Charles Dickens I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
phrases uncertain temper
Charles Dickens …a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
phrases used wells
Ben Affleck Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.
phrases may said
Daniel Handler You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.
phrases fancy virtue
Agnes Repplier There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
phrases speech accepted
Agnes Repplier Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
phrases use helping
Socrates To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it
phrases wells
Laurie R. King Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
phrases holiness christ
John Wesley Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.