Verb Quotes

184 Verb quotes by 149 unique authors

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
Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to… — Stanley Coren
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because… — Ambrose Bierce
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place. — Martha Graham
Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be… — Frederick Busch
In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,... I underscore the… — Pope Francis
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had… — Elmore Leonard
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify… — Guy de Maupassant
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb — Jimmy Carter
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. — Shonda Rhimes
I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning. — Louis C. K.
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating… — John Steinbeck
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and… — Matt Fraction
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. — Flann O'Brien
My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you… — Antonio Banderas
The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give' — Billy Graham

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