Adjectives And Adverbs Quotes

• Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

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  Mary Oliver

  Adjectives And Adverbs   Fifty   Cents  

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?

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  Tom Coburn

  Children   America   Adjectives And Adverbs  

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.

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  Roy Stryker

  Photography   Thinking   Adjectives And Adverbs  

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• All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

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  Maya Angelou

  People   Feelings   Sound  

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

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  Tracy Chevalier

  Writing   Adjectives And Adverbs   Care  

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• Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

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  Anton Chekhov

  Art   Writing   Men  

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