Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle. — Fred Rogers 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
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
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
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
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. — Gloria Steinem 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
I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not… — Mary McCarthy 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
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love… — Rajneesh 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
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11… — Joe Biden 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
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image