I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. — Joni Eareckson Tada 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
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not… — Rachel Maddow 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
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
Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
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
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found… — Heinrich Heine 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
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns.… — Robert Rankin 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
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
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
“As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your… — Margaret Atwood 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
Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image