Verb Quotes

184 Verb quotes by 149 unique authors

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. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind… — 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'm 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 Jermaine… — 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
I’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
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

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