Verb Quotes

184 quotes by 149 authors

A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. — Thomas Carlyle
God is a verb, not a noun. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir
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
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." — Arthur Eddington
The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence. — William C. Brown
Never use a verb other than â€˜saidâ€™ to carry dialogue. — Elmore Leonard
To love is an active verb. — Ogden Nash
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance,… — Evelyn Underhill
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
Here is what I'm trying to tell you:Â AdultÂ isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our… — Kelly Williams Brown
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.'… — Daniele Vare
When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy. — Dennis Miller
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.

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