The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be;… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to… — Stephen Covey 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
She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is… — Roy Stryker Copy Share Image
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with… — Daniele Vare Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
