Nouns Quotes

120 Nouns quotes by 105 unique authors

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly… — Fred Rogers
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun. — Rob Sheffield
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie
So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?”… — Lisa Kleypas
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job,… — Jodi Picoult
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs,… — Daniel Handler
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs
I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have… — Melina Marchetta
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — C.S. Lewis
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. — Janis Joplin
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I… — David Sedaris
As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us… — Robert Rankin
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. — David Mitchell
The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and… — Stephen Fry
By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your… — Margaret Atwood
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can… — Ian Mcewan
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things… — Stephen Fry
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious… — Adrienne Rich
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself… — Anne Carson
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. — Veronica Roth
Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me… — Margaret Atwood
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. — Joni Eareckson Tada
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world… — Martin Amis

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