Verb Quotes

184 quotes by 156 authors

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.... — Eddie Vedder
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. — Victor Hugo
If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do… — Betty Eadie
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action. — Lierre Keith
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach
I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not… — Charles Darwin
There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this… — E E Cummings
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a… — Charles Baudelaire
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. — Franz Liszt
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. — Pat Metheny
I'mÂ usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for… — Kendrick Lamar
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or… — Ulysses S. Grant
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a… — Lorrie Moore
Iâ€™m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel… — Stephen King
I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only… — William P. Young
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in… — Artie Shaw
I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I… — Joe Biden
Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the… — Mira Sorvino

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