Nouns Quotes

120 Nouns quotes by 105 unique authors

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
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They're nouns… — Rob Bell
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
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. — Martha Graham
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. — Mary Daly
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. — Robert Downey, Jr.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. — Bell Hooks
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. — Yoko Ono
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies. — Josh Radnor
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a… — R. Buckminster Fuller
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. — H. L. Mencken
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.… — Diane Ackerman
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism'… — Terry Jones
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors… — Ray Bradbury
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… — Rob Sheffield

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