The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. — Shonda Rhimes 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
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still. — Ivor Cutler 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
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
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
Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the… — Vanderlei Luxemburgo Copy Share Image
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the… — William P. Young 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
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
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
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
But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the… — Jean Kerr 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
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they… — Thalia Copy Share Image
“I miss Latin. So much fun--all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
