Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue).… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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
Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of… — Stanley Coren Copy Share Image
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does,… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day… — Ford Madox Ford 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
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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
“Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give' — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
