Verbs Quotes

209 quotes by 172 authors

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
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well… — Rudolf Flesch
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
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs... — Lewis Carroll
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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