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
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that… — Joe Tye 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
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always… — Mira Sorvino 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
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. — Mary Oliver 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
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
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison 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
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
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden 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
[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I… — Abby May Alcott 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
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
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