Nouns Quotes

120 Nouns quotes by 105 unique authors

I believe in love the verb, not the noun. — Greg Behrendt
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression.… — Julia Quinn
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at… — Karen Marie Moning
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. — Glenn Greenwald
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am… — David Levithan
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office.… — Eric Weiner
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in… — Adrienne Rich
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I… — Melina Marchetta
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every… — Barbara De Angelis
Poetry is all nouns and verbs. — Marianne Moore
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. — J. Patrick Lewis
Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. — William Arthur Ward
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make… — P.J. O'Rourke
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object,… — John Wesley Powell
Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to… — Elwyn Brooks White
I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the… — Dennis Miller
Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns — Leo Stein
I want to verb your nouns adjectively. — Nikhil Saluja

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