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
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
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. — Voltaire 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
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing… — Joan Z. Borysenko 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
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called… — Bix Beiderbecke 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
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
A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. — David Mitchell 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
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And… — Kendrick Lamar 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
