I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something… — Mary J. Miller 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
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
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb… — Adrienne Rich 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
The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent. — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,...… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
