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
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be.… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They… — Joseph Devlin 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
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image