Verb Quotes

184 quotes by 149 authors

Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all.… — Frederick Buechner
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if… — Pat Metheny
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just… — Pat Metheny
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were,… — Jonathan Raban
Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full… — Rajneesh
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate is insecure, and… — Rajneesh
A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross… — Unknown Author
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb. — Janet Fitch
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the… — Constance Hale
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas
Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand! — Andrea Gibson
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine de Kooning
The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the… — Eve Ensler
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb… — Bill Gaede
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to… — Joe Tye
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. — Eric Weiner
Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop — Dylan Moran

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