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
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep… — Adrienne Rich 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
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf 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
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make… — Maya Angelou 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
