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
The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter… — Ralph Venning 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
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. — David Mitchell 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
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point,… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a… — Richard Dawkins 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
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image