Noun Quotes

107 Noun quotes by 90 unique authors

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom… — Unknown Author
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine de Kooning
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb… — Bill Gaede
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to… — Joe Tye
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. — Eric Weiner
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place. — Martha Graham
Think Tank, noun: The shower. — Craig Reucassel
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb — Jimmy Carter
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things. — Marianne Williamson
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by… — Jason Silva
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and… — Matt Fraction
Mother is a verb, not a noun. — Shonda Rhimes
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden
Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle. — Fred Rogers
Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb. — LeCrae
God is a verb, not a noun. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in… — Robert J. Sawyer
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? — William Safire
Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness,… — Joan Z. Borysenko
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun… — Cathy Davidson
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 small decisions that fill our… — Kelly Williams Brown
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the… — Criss Jami

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