Attributives Quotes

#1. In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.

E.B. White

#2. (about Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.

Eoin Colfer

#3. Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

Greg Smith

#4. He was unsure what the thing inside him was and was unprepared to commit himself to the course of action that would be required to explore the question.

David Foster Wallace

#5. In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.

Tom Watson

#6. May I feel contented and safe.
May I feel protected and pleased.
May my physical body support me with strength.
May my life unfold smoothly with ease. [p. 71]

Sylvia Boorstein

#7. The past, the future: - two eternities!

Thomas Moore

#8. You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.

Robinson Cano

#9. There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.

Amit Ray