- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adjective Quotes
On the small word that changes how you're seen.
These quotes zero in on how one adjective can quietly dismiss a person — a 'black actor' or 'gay actor' reduced before the word 'actor' even lands, or a writer bristling at any qualifier placed in front of their title.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Figure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew very early on that I was not pretty. No one ever called me pretty. It was not the go-to adjective people used to describe me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.
- Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020