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- Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege… — Ambrose Bierce
- To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou
- Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next… — Fran Lebowitz
- We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a… — Richard Dawkins
- Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — 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… — Stephen King
- Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — 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… — 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… — Bix Beiderbecke