Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bipasha Basu

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.

Brian Eno

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

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.

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.

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.

William Safire

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'

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,

Angela Davis

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

Dick Schaap

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Mike Brown

So it's compound problems, ... Somebody is not in their gap and then you miss the tackle and it turns into big plays.

Ferid Murad

What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

Kent Houser

We are playing so different than we were a month ago. When we make a mistake now, we don?t compound it by making another or getting that deer-in-the-headlights look. We just keep playing.

Bill Sexton

I think we helped them in the first inning with the double error. That inning is over with no runs if we make the play on that, but then we compound things with the mistake in the outfield as well.

Dr. McKinlay

There has been increasing concern about the use of mercury-based amalgam for filling teeth, even though we've been using exactly this compound for about 150 years.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Neil Cornish

All the distance covered by the light in the early universe gets increased by the expansion of the universe. Think of it like compound interest.

Neil Herman

Apparently, more Sun servers are sold running Oracle software than anything else. Weak results and guidance from Sun only serve to compound our near-term worries.

Marcus Maringola

Evans pitched great. He was hitting his spots and to compound that we weren't making adjustments (at the plate).

Janis Joplin

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

Chuck Palahniuk

We all have some proper noun to blame.

Benjamin Whorf

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Gertrude Stein

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Florence Nightingale

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Fiona Shaw

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Joe Biden

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

Martha Graham

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

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.

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.

Agnes Repplier

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Ben Affleck

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Janet Parker

We're not about to let them take the phrase

Brian Tracy

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Edmund Spenser

Oft stumbles at a straw.

Deepak Chopra

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

Charles de Lint

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

Laura Osnes

I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

Andy Kindler

I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly.

Anthony Kiedis

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

Frank Caliendo

You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.

Gillian Jacobs

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!

Gabe Newell

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future,