Comic Quote by Bill Watterson Download Open image “Verbing weirds language.” — Bill Watterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comic English language Language
“Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth… — John Lawler Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing… — Peter Ellis Copy Share Image
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. — Soren Kierkegaard 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
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
When you think of comic book readers, you never think of the brown girl, and I was that. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
