Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? — Stephen Covey 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
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand! — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James Copy Share Image
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning. — Louis C. K 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
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
“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and… — Ray Bradbury 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
A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points… — Ernest Fenollosa 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
Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures.… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being."… — Gregory Orr 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
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
Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing… — Joan Z. Borysenko 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
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
