Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden 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
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
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth"… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that… — Joe Tye 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
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It… — Gertrude Stein 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
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
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
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
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 do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison 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
Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those… — Kelly Williams Brown 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
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden 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
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