“Black Oroogu, the language with no nouns and only one adjective, which is obscene.” — Terry Pratchett 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
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
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. — Glenn Greenwald 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
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in… — John Wesley Powell 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
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
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 concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need… — Simon Sinek 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
“I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how… — Barry Lopez 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
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman 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
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
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