What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in… — John Wesley Powell 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
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians. — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone… — Paul Beatty 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
anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being."… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures.… — Robert Kiyosaki 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
while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? — William Safire Copy Share Image
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
