Noun Quotes

107 quotes by 94 authors

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)… — Ambrose Bierce
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease… — Fran Lebowitz
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only… — Guy de Maupassant
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York… — Stephen King
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective… — Gustave Flaubert
Life is a verb, not a noun. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security. — James Gosling
We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck. — Jon Stewart
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated… — Bix Beiderbecke
Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything… — Roger Rosenblatt
I'mÂ 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 that goes for… — Kendrick Lamar
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a… — Lorrie Moore
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. — Gore Vidal
Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective — Rob Bell
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in… — Artie Shaw
I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I… — Joe Biden
Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all.… — Frederick Buechner
Any noun can be verbed. — Alan Perlis

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