Verbs Quotes

209 quotes by 172 authors

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
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin
The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give' — Billy Graham
Mother is a verb, not a noun. — Shonda Rhimes
Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentenceâ€”a noun, a verb, and 9/11 — Joe Biden
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that… — Garrison Keillor
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure. — Frida Kahlo
Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb. — LeCrae
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. — William Ralph Inge
Consider incompleteness as a verb. — Anne Carson
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

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