#adjective

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. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

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

— Mortimer Adler

#different #different kinds #distinct #distinguish #english

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#actor #adjectives #always #best #doing

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. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#advisable #attributes #expect #interactions #least

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. ↗

— Brian Eno

#anything #good #popular #populist #rarely

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#adjective #anything #before #black #gay

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#banana #parts #peel #speech

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#any #better #character #clothes #hide

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

#assigned #because #eternity #gay #i

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

— Mira Sorvino

#become #big #big deal #days #deal