The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“They wanted to be nouns, but they were, and eternally must be, mere adjectives.” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think it's important for you to understand that homosexuality is not a noun that describes a condition. It's an adjective that… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns.… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders:… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image