Verbs Quotes

209 quotes by 172 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
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important… — 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
Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in todayâ€™s world, I wish to suggest a single choiceâ€”a choice of peace and protection and a… — Richard C. Edgley
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
For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not… — Simon Sinek
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
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. — Philip Pullman
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I… — Susan Griffin
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

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