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
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
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language. — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in. — Kathleen Hanna 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
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. — Michel Thomas Copy Share Image
"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those… — Kelly Williams Brown Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
