We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you. — Dashiell Hammett 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
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable. — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love… — Anonymous 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
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
“Some verbs switch all over just because. I am She is They are He was They were Would be simpler if English… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she… — Elmore Leonard 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
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
When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that… — Edmond Rostand 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
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
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen 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
There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them.… — e. e. cummings 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
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
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 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
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting.… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
