Comic Quote by Bill Watterson

“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

In English every word can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

— Alan Perlis

“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

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

— Dave Chappelle

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

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

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

“Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.”

— Janet Peery

“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of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which…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

“Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.”

— Anonymous